There has been another query on growing non-certified seed.
Please,
please don't plant them.
They may seem cheap but if they do have a disease and, if you didn't grow them yourself, you have no way of knowing, you will produce your own little area of disease for aphids to feed on and then move to other growers' luckless plants. Have a look at
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/factsheets/Potato_EarlyBlt.htm for the primary cause of blight infestation (and the way to prevent it!)and
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r607300611.html for more info on how disease is spread
Each year there a web site that plots the spread of blight in the UK and the vast majority of the outbreaks are traced back to volunteers or farmer's old stock that they did not destroy.
Please don't spoil it for others just for a few cheap
er spuds!!
End of rant!!
Phil
