[tjic]

> Potatoes - Incredibly easy to grow.

I lost my entire crop to the Colorado Potato Beetle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_potato_beetle in 2016.

Note: "However, many chemicals are often unsuccessful when used against this pest because of the beetle's ability to rapidly develop insecticide resistance."

If that was my staple crop, I'd be dead of starvation right about now.

[teddyh]

The target market for this container seems to be Africa, which does not seem to have the Colorado potato beetle.

[ComputerGuru]

It would be wise to consider that until 1840, the potato blight was a non-issue in Ireland, too.

Of course the idea is not to hate on potato as a crop but rather to stress the importance of genetic diversity in one's food supply.