Loads of my first earlies failed to come up (Rockets) - and the ones that did look a bit sick. The same thing happened to my dad last year, think i might give Charlton park a miss next year...
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Keef:-
I only just registered this comment. Charlton Park? As in the potato day supplier?
I got some Pink Fir Apples from that day which looked darned peculiar and which are now causing some concern (see thread
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,28/topic,21782.0where there's a piccy).
I also had some Rockets bought from them at the Potato day and one looked awful with odd whitish patches after it had been chitting for a week or three, so I cut it in half and the inside was riddled with dryish rot and tunnels. At the time I assumed it had been eaten and binned them all. But now I read your article - was it a bad batch or something infected the rest or...?
moonbells
edit 12/7 After a conversation at the plots last night, it seems that the Edzell Blues I bought at the same time for a friend are also a bit odd - they've all gone a dark brown *under* the leaves! She is now watching them carefully, but another coincidence? All her other spuds were bought at the HDRA Potato day in Coventry, and are fine.