I suppose it might be blackleg if you've been able to water your spuds
Not that John...I never water my potatoes!
Had another look this morning and noticed it was not my Kestrels it was in fact my Charlotte's.
Another thing is; I plant out 20 rows (5 tubers wide) in one bed on my plot so this year I grew 5rows x Rocket, 5 rows x Charlotte,5 rows x Kestrel and 5 rows x PFA and the only the Charlotte's are affected.
In fact when you look down the bed you can tell by the leaves that there are 4 varieties in it by the different shades of green or in the case of the Charlottes...these were yellow!
In fact the first row of Rocket and Kestrel adjacent to the Charlotte's are a lovely healthy green
So I think my problem came with the seed tubers I bought.
I say this because of something else I have done which gives me a comparison and that is: the Charlotte tubers which I saved from last year and are in another bed are unaffected.
So I think my thoughts are confirmed by these observations.
I dug up a root to see what was below and was pleasantly surprised with what I saw there were 10 nice tubers at the end of the haulm, most of which you can see here:
Another thing could be the humidity under the potato tops during the recent hot spell could have had an affect but I doubt it, simply because only one variety was affected.
At least I seem to have come out not too badly assuming the rest of the Charlotte crop is like those above.
