[Alex 98]

A whole row of these pots ruined by....eelworm?
The variety is WINSTON

And as the old joke goes..........poor yeild as well.

Can I plant straight back into this soil?

Alex 98

[shaun]

scab it is,you can still eat em  

[gobs]

Just looks like scab and crack to me, they should be lovely.

[Trillium]

Despite meticulous rotation, we get potato scab all the time. There's no cure. But it doesn't at all affect the taste or storability of the tater. Peel as usual.

[vegmandan]

Raising the acidity of the soil where you are going to plant spuds by adding some peat or grass clippings when planting can help to deter it apparently. :?

[Alex 98]

thanks for the replies. Two more rows to go, fingers crossed
The International kidney, in the next row was completly unaffected
Didn't think they were edible, threw them away!!Doh!

Alex 98

[muntjac]

matey but ya can stil eat em. check this out it definatly is not scab


http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=7949&highlight=free+spuds+muntjac

[vegmandan]

I must admit I grew some picasso spuds once and they all came out like that after a long dry spell.

Spuds were fine and kept well too,so I wouldn't worry about 'em  

[compostqueen]

Picasso chips. Yum  

[gobs]

I thought the larger darker blotches on Alex's photo were mud.

[Trillium]

Don't know what you call it then in the UK, but the mottled bits on that spud are called scab over here. Annoying mostly but not harmful. No cure for it except find fresh land where spuds haven't been grown before.

[muntjac]

scab forms a circular rosette type lesion this comes after dry or wet spells and can be a secondary of the splitting virus .this looks more like the mosaic form  

[Trillium]

Interesting. We get only the mosaic scab here then as I've never seen the other. Canada has a high reputation for few potato diseases, unlike you poor souls in the UK with most every spud disease known.

[muntjac]

common scab
  http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/wyoming/agriculture/resources/ipd/potato_scab_files/PotatoScabColl.jpg&imgrefurl=http://counties.cce.cornell.edu/wyoming/agriculture/resources/ipd/potato_scab.htm&h=275&w=510&sz=17&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=AAB_3zEpur_1SM:&tbnh=71&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscab%2Bon%2Bpotato%2527s%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.umassvegetable.org/images/soils_crops_pest_mgt/disease/potato_scab.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.umassvegetable.org/soil_crop_pest_mgt/disease_mgt/potato_scab.html&h=382&w=450&sz=194&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=uh8KnKqq7A_3JM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscab%2Bon%2Bpotato%2527s%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

 for others check here

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.blackthornarable.co.uk/photography/potatoes/disease/S5-10%2520B%2520DOT%2520POTATO%2520STEMS_jpg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.blackthornarable.co.uk/photography/potdis.htm&h=292&w=400&sz=16&hl=en&start=40&tbnid=Dx8XhthtEK7RWM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddiseases%2Bof%2Bpotato%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

[Rampant_Weasel]

this is my 2nd years of growing and ive had scab both times...and its the first time the soil has grown anything apart from grass and weeds in twenty years at least.the scab isnt major just a few spots - is it because its nearly cultivated ground?
ive grown the same fe variety both times tho - maris bard. dont think ill be using it again.got blight both times as well.