[Sadgit]

All 7 rows of my Pink Fir Apples spuds are like this.. I am totally gutted and really want to know how I stop this happening next year. These were planted after the rain and after the ground had started to dry out.

[ACatCalledElvis]

yep same here - your answers in your picture - a slug - we saved about 50% - cant have been blight cos wea too hit and miss. :(

[Sadgit]

cannot surely all be slugs? some of the spuds were the skins and that was all we had left..

[ACatCalledElvis]

thats my theory - been a lot about..........the spuds were turned into almost cheese? - and without doubt each had a slug attached - even when drying out - slugs were appearing from them.........

[splodger]

i won't bother trying to roast em - that's for sure

[WG.]

Boy - is that ever a bad case of slug attack.  As Elvis says, there is even one at work in the second photo

[Sadgit]

but how can I stop the *? too late for this year I know that much... sick as

[WG.]

Organically? your profile doesn't say

[splodger]

i think we ought to have a continual post thingy - for peeps to put up piccies of pests etc.

might help the newer gardeners help to itentify little * lugs etc.

the slugs on my plot are about 2-3 inches long and orange - don't know what they have been eating - but they are blooming fat doodahs  :shock:

strangely no obvious slug damage - except my dahlias - but i would rather lose a few flowers than a whole crop of spuds to them  

[Aunt Sally]

You can treat your land with nematodes to kill the slugs for next year

http://www.marshalls-seeds.co.uk/rkmain.asp?PAGEID=20670&STK_PROD_CODE=1090-3818&AID=A001&gclid=CJKHm-PZ8I0CFQcMEAodDx6WMw


I have a few slug holes in my spuds... but those pictures  :shock:


I think a pests and diseases picture sticky would a good idea.  I'll put it to the other mods.

[WG.]

Offer to home a dozen ducks for a month or two.  They'll take care of your slugs for you (plus any plants still growing in the plot).

[Sadgit]

Organically? your profile doesn't say

No... just want shot of them :evil:  :twisted:

[WG.]

slug pellets - by the cwt!

[richyrich7]

Apart from the big biffa slug you got there    they don't pong do they ? just I found that a lot of my blighted pot's also have massive slug damage they seem to like the squigy one's best.

[muntjac]

slugs just need pellets before you sow any sed or plant anything then 2 wekly applications