It's just a bit of scab Lorna, the big Maris Piper didn't look too healthy to start so don't worry. Peel the scabby bits off and the spud underneath is still perfectly edible. Getting over 20 spuds from that one beast is still a good return, well done 👍
The compost will be okay, I reuse mine year after year, scab or no scab. The main cause of scab is lack of water during the first critical weeks of tuber formation - so water well. Beware of using supermarket spuds. Many are treated with a (organic) growth inhibitor. So yes, they will produce spuds but the yield will be down on a proper seeds spud.
Yes, think it's down to lack of water like you said; Plan on putting in a watering system next year to help and I'm not risking supermarket potatoes again!
Looked pretty good to me, if you leave 1 or two chits on the potato and rub the rest off you will get bigger potatoes than if there's lots of chits. 👌🙏🥔😁
It hasn't died back. The leaves are still green and haven't fallen over. Try using dome ashes when you plant to kill disease...after watering it's like potato soap (lye).
It seems that adding sulphur to the soil stops scab from forming if the ph is too high. Search scab and sulphur to see if this will help. After Many tries my potatoes are growing after I added sulphur. I added sulphur in the trench where the seed potatoes went in.
It's just a bit of scab Lorna, the big Maris Piper didn't look too healthy to start so don't worry. Peel the scabby bits off and the spud underneath is still perfectly edible. Getting over 20 spuds from that one beast is still a good return, well done 👍
The compost will be okay, I reuse mine year after year, scab or no scab.
The main cause of scab is lack of water during the first critical weeks of tuber formation - so water well.
Beware of using supermarket spuds. Many are treated with a (organic) growth inhibitor. So yes, they will produce spuds but the yield will be down on a proper seeds spud.
Yes, think it's down to lack of water like you said; Plan on putting in a watering system next year to help and I'm not risking supermarket potatoes again!
Looked pretty good to me, if you leave 1 or two chits on the potato and rub the rest off you will get bigger potatoes than if there's lots of chits. 👌🙏🥔😁
I will definetly be doing this next year! My sspc will be interesting to harvest as it's chits only :)
@@themondaycorner lots of my Sspc are cuttings and chits I ripped off, they do give a yield.👍👌🙏🥔😁
It hasn't died back. The leaves are still green and haven't fallen over. Try using dome ashes when you plant to kill disease...after watering it's like potato soap (lye).
I will have to have a look at trying that next year :)
It seems that adding sulphur to the soil stops scab from forming if the ph is too high. Search scab and sulphur to see if this will help. After
Many tries my potatoes are growing after I added sulphur. I added sulphur in the trench where the seed potatoes went in.
I have been thinking of doing some experimenting next year to see what will work well, I shall add sulphur to my list of things to try, thank you :)