Timely reminder - check your stored spuds

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Kirpi

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Timely reminder - check your stored spuds
« on: July 31, 2012, 19:45 »
Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but I just went through my potato stocks for tea and pulled out about a dozen blighted potatoes from my store boxes.

It is easy to forget to keep an eye on your stocks and end up spoiling the lot by not pulling out the odd blighted spud.

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Re: Timely reminder - check your stored spuds
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2012, 20:34 »
Funny you posting this tonight Kirpi - I have just thrown away some salad blues that had gone horrible.
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Re: Timely reminder - check your stored spuds
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2012, 21:48 »
Stored spuds? I don't have any. I don't think you are talking of last years' potatoes,
so are you talking of this year's earlies?
Early potatoes do not store at all. They go very soft even mushy. I would not expect earlies to have blight.
I have just finished eating earlies that have been grown in pots. Empty  two at a time, to prevent waste.
Now starting to  lift Charlotte and Kestrel. I will store these but only when they are dried and blemish free.

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Re: Timely reminder - check your stored spuds
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2012, 23:29 »
Ivor Backache - thanks, but our second earlies and early maincrop were struck by foliage blight and had to be lifted early so yes -  I am talking about this year's stored potatoes.



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