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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: lucky245 on July 22, 2009, 17:37

Title: Red potato problem disease
Post by: lucky245 on July 22, 2009, 17:37

Any ideas what is wrong with my potatoes.  They are reds with white wart like pustules

Title: Re: Red potato problem disease
Post by: DD. on July 22, 2009, 17:40

Bit blurry - could be common scab - only skin deep.

Had you limed the soil before.

Welcome to the forums by the way.

Title: Re: Red potato problem disease
Post by: lucky245 on July 22, 2009, 17:45

No, we just dug, manured and planted.   The white pustules are like tiny warts

Title: Re: Red potato problem disease
Post by: DD. on July 22, 2009, 18:27

Just realised that this is in the General Gardening forum, I'll whizz it to GYO where the spud experts lurk.

Title: Re: Red potato problem disease
Post by: fatbelly on July 23, 2009, 21:16

I have got the exact same on my maincrop Red Spuds (Romano) which I dug up today.
It looks like it is scab and is nothing to worry about as it is only skin deep. As far as I am aware it will not affect either the taste or the tubers storing but I guess it would be best to use them first. It is caused when the soil is too Alkaline, this can happen when the soil has been limed the winter before.

Title: Re: Red potato problem disease
Post by: lucky245 on July 23, 2009, 22:17

thanks

Title: Re: Red potato problem disease
Post by: galen on July 24, 2009, 00:03

Isn't common scab caused by lack of water at certain growing times as well ? I found it on my spuds from the plants at the ends of the rows. All still tasted great though 1  :)