[Caz4448]

Help!!!!

My King Edwards looked fantastic last week and ready for harvesting. Went down today to find them looking somewhat different. Most of the leaves had turned yellow and had grey/dark patches on them. I thought potato blight but the long time residents came to have a look and thought not. I dug the lot up and found that most of the plants had some sort of hard white fungal growth at the root of the stem (by the seed ) which had spread onto some of the other potatoes. I also noticed some really small white nemetode type creatures. Any ideas and can I eat the unaffected spuds? :cry:
First year on an allotment so gutted.
On a positive not I've got some fantastic runner beans!!!!!!

[SalJ1980]

Sorry Caz, not a clue about the spuds, it's my first year too and I'm not growing them!

But congrats on the runners...I found my first young beans today, all of an inch long!  

[Caz4448]

Sal

It's great isn't it, I've got so many beans I might be forced to give them away or eat so many I risk turning into one!

[SalJ1980]

I'd be tempted to go with the risky option personally, I love beans!  

[gobs]

Caz, I'm not sure there is anything wrong with them. Ready for harvest, past flowering, they just naturally die back.

Seed potato commonly will rot eventually.

I know them late main crop, but planted early enough it can be there - not all lates will mature at the same time either - I have two late maturing varieties dying back now.

Nematodes, you would have cysts/knobly stuff on roots.

It all a guess work without seeing though.