[shaun]

McDonalds buy spuds trillium  :? you learn something new every day,what you gonna tell us next that they buy beef aswell    

[muntjac]

here are the couple pictures of my trip tonite


row of spuds just left after they stopped grading em

this lot are what richard said i should help myself to

 they stated doing the field and then the buyers came and said they wasntb taking anymore and that thye was returning all the others unless he wanted them to be dumped for animal feed. they are now on the tip



this is what they look like after washing one

3x 100 litre tree sacks full so far ,total wieght close to 150lbs  will be going again during the week .


 my son was sweating liike a pig when he took theses thats why thye are blurred i wil take a pic of the spuds as i wash em all the morrows ready to store

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

Some of my potatoes had grooves like that, I thought that I must have skimped when I stone picked before I planted and they had grown against the stones - what actually causes the problem ?

[shaun]

is that you sat on the back of the car mate ?

[muntjac]

yes it is .......the virus is rhyacionia there are about 10 variations of it

[shaun]

never heared of that one mate is it in the seed spud or what.
youve had a hair cut  :roll:

[Trillium]

Nah, I wouldn't tell you that, Shaun. I'd say it was mutton disguised as beef      Actually, McDonalds is not the biggest spud buyer in Canada. But they are the biggest pain in the a** though.    The point is that the poor farmers get very railroaded by the buyers and earn next to nothing these days. Despite the size of Canada and amount of arable land, too many farmers are going bankrupt too quickly and soon commercial  agriculture will be suffering here.

[muntjac]

sure have matey .. look like im back in the job  

[Aidy]

Hope this virus cannot be carried in  human hair mate, looks like the sheep shearers for you matey.  

[Trillium]

sure have matey .. look like im back in the job  

I can just picture you step-marching all those spuds into their sacks  

so when do we get some clearer shots of your spuds? I'd like to see the so-called virus that's on them. Thankfully we don't get blight or such here, but it's interesting to know in case it ever does show up.

[muntjac]

the virus is rhyacionia there are about 10 variations of it
google search brings up the different efects trill

[jacnal]

Can we have a pic of a peeled and cut potato please Munty?

Well done to your son for the hard work.

All I can say is I wish I were there to help with those potatoes   ......... We are currently buying 7.5 kgs for £6.50 from riverford. It was £5.00 or £5.50 a few months ago. And that's better than the farmer's market, where organic potatoes are £1.20 per kg!!! Supers are cheaper, are rarely locally produced (suprise suprise!!!), but absolutely tasteless. We had luch at my in-laws this afternoon. The potatoes were like fleshy water - No taste whatsoever, I couldn't really eat them  :shock:

I'm definitely planting taters next year  :!:

[mushroom]

yes it is .......the virus is rhyacionia there are about 10 variations of it

are you sure?

google search shows "rhyacionia " to be "pine tip moth" (an insect) rather than anything viral.

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=0012017

http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=1212

hundreds more... all moths!

[muntjac]

sorry i will have to get the proper spelling.

here is the spud and what it does .the spud inside is just normal

[shaun]

that dont look like a spud mate it looks like a picture from the hubble telescope :shock: