No good spuds!!

[gtm41658]

Don't post on here often...just lurk from the outside and learn from everyone else, however I need some advice from the learned ones.....what to do with the spuds that the slugs have got to first?

Have asked on our lottie and all i get is the shrugged shoulders..how does every body else get rid of them...' and I've tried pocheen' ...didn't like it!!!!!

Gerry

[gtm41658]

[cambourne7]

i stick them in my household green waste they then take this to a place that hot composts them into oblivion. I have seen allotment holders putting bits of eaten spud into there compost bin and this is fine if you dont mind volunteers  ;D

Anything with blight i am putting in my black bin which goes to land fill as i dont want to spread the infection.

[redimp]

I compost them - few survive and any volunteers are ruthlessly culled - especially after blight.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Compost them. They're not tough enough to survive the can!

[antipodes]

I know that I have used this method this year for killing weeds before putting them in the compost. Just tie it all up securely in a black bin bag and leave it in the full sun. I have put several bags like that into my compost this year, even with bindweed. Once it has had a good cooking, I stick it in a corner of the shed and when I remember (about 2 months later, chuck it in the compost, it rots down in the bag to a fibrous mass, but doesn't smell at all.
I think that you do that with your sluggy bits, I can't see the beasties surviving! It's like an oven inside. Then you could chuck it all on the compost with no qualms!

[Deb P]

That would be good ...if we ever actually had a decent amount of sun..... :-\

[donlottie]

been digging on a plot that was abandoned for over a year. Got lots of tatties out of it (they were really nice to eat) but noticed in my digging that some have turned to mush - Is this what blight looks like? When I have seen this I have removed the offending bits and then turning the soil - am I digging disease back into the ground? and should I put potatoes back in next year - all answers welcome

[euronerd]

donlottie it could be that the mushy ones are those which were originally planted. From what I can gather, it acts as a food source for the tubers growing from it. Every one of my earlies were like this but I can't remember if my maincrops have been in the past (haven't lifted this year's yet). If somebody else comes along and gives you a different answer, believe them, not me. I'm fairly new to this. ;D

Geoff.

[inski]

Hi donlottie

I'm gradually working my way down my allotment which hasn't been dug for at least 7 years, and breaking the groung up with spuds. Some have turned mushy in places due to wireworm, apparently prevalent in grassland. I just cut out all the bad bits and chuck them in the compost bin with the peelings.

[donlottie]

Surely chucking spuds on a compost heap is asking for more to grow in your heap????

Thanks euronerd. My spuds have been lovely, cant wait to dig my next bed - what will be in that one ?? who knows!!!

[redimp]

Nothing grows without light - they start off then they die and rot.