writes:

Perhaps. But upon re-reading it it seems to suggest using aromatic
crops, perhaps as a border crop. Why it suggests potatoes as aromatic
I don't know. Do potatoes produce smelly flowers or leaves?

Actually, Jim, some varieties do have fragrant flowers. Having always
thought of veggie blossoms as generic regarding smell, it was quite a
surprise to realize that the blues have a very fragrant flower.

But perhaps the reasons some use potatoes (???) as a border might be that
the critters think it's too lowly a food for them to eat, like royalty did
centuries ago. (The story of the potato in Europe is rather interesting.)
You do realize, of course, that I'm joking about the critters, don't you?
Seriously though, some of the "different" varieties of potatoes I've
grown can compete with many flowers for the pleasant fragrance. Never
thought of them like that at all until one spring in the garden, I located
the source of that wonderful aroma - a blue potato plant in bloom.

However, I wouldn't think that even the most aromic (sp) of them would
repel anything.

Glenna