Need to moan about my potatoes

[caroline7758]

Just letting off steam, really. Dug up 2 rocket plants today. Got about 1lb of potatoes from each, most of which were either full of holes (eelworm) or split (which i thought was supposed to be a result of dry weather!).  >:(

At least there's no sign of blight here yet. (touch wood)- maybe my maincrop will be better.

[caroline7758]

[Jayb]

Bloomin' weather, not good is it. Sorry to hear about you tatties  :( 

Better luck with your mains  :)

[realfood]

They split if dry weather is followed by very wet weather.

[Two Choices]

Dug all my earlies up and likewise, a poor yeild. To top it off, the maincrop have blight so I've cut the leaves off and am now wondering whether to leave them in the ground or dig the lot up and try and keep them in boxes / bags  :(

[caroline7758]

They split if dry weather is followed by very wet weather.

Ah, that makes sense! It's weird how the yield can vary so much from one plant to the next. The first plant I dug up was rubbish, the next was great, hardly any damage, then the next two were rubbish again. ::)

[chriscross1966]

I'm seeing a big crop but a lot of slug damage on my Lady Chrystls... My hope that the nematodes would have a good year seem unfounded, though I'll get another pack and unleash them...

[jonny211]

Howdo,

From my first earlies I got about 1kg from a 12 foot row and the biggest ones were hollow, is that the effect of dry then wet weather again? Also nearly all of them were scabby which I've not had before.

Cheers.

Jon

[galina]

I would like to find out how my potatoes are doing, but the soil has turned to heavy sludge.  The early ones which were dug 2 weeks ago, were good and nice.  But since then the garden got waterlogged and nothing drains fast on our clay.  Hopefully all is well despite the swampy conditions.

[powerspade]

All my spuds have rotted in the soil

[strawberry1]

heck, I started early on lady christi. sometime in may and boy am I glad. Then we dug up all the charlottes and kestrel  about 7 days ago on the dry sunny day. Since then I have been preserving the charlottes in any which way I can. I do have three small sacks of kestrel sacks in a cool dry place but I don`t trust them. They looked good but felt too `wet` so I have my fingers crossed that they keep, at least to christmas

[antipodes]

@jonny211
I have had the hollow potato job - they are being eaten probably by voles or mice. If you look carefully they eat out the tatty and leave the skins, crafty little bardstarts.

[Poppy Mole]

Because mine are a bit too close together I never noticed that the heavy downpours that we had, had washed a lot of the soil away - it is very sandy.  As I don't go out in the garden when it is wet plus I was away quite a bit as well, I have quite a few green ones can I save these to plant or do I just chuck them?
The good ones are huge but also have split/hollow centres.