Yeah potato beetles do love them but generally the plants are so vigorous they can sustain the damage. If fact, we kind of use them as a trap crop towards the edges of the production areas because the potato beetles love them even more than potatoes!
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Great idea - they do seem to love them.
Beetle populations explode here when I have the ground cherries which is funny because they don't seem to bother anything else. The plants quickly get stripped of leaves and die. I'm in zone 10b so it gets pretty warm & humid. Too hot to grow potatoes.
It's just something else I can't grow in the subtropics.