compost

[lottie lou]

I chucked te compost from the bins I grew my spuds in last year into the compost bin.  Can I use the compost from this bin for spuds/toms this year

[lottie lou]

[tonybloke]

yes

[pigeonseed]

I think so, haven't we had a question like this recently? Or am I getting deja vu? Someonse said blight overwinters on living plant tissue, not in soil.

Of course they could have made it up, but it sounded convincing to me.  :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

I didn't make it up; the common cources are farmer's outgrade piles - ie potatoes which have been left piled in the field because our ridiculous system made them unsaleable - and accidentals, ie the spuds we miss, and which come up the following year.

[saddad]

Man ist was Man isst....   :-X

[pigeonseed]

I had a feeling it was you, Robert!

I didn't realise there were piles of scrapped potatoes. You'd think it was worth using them in things like processed foods. But then damaged potatoes are harder to clean and peel I suppose. Are they damaged ones?

I'd have em!

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'm not sure; it wasn't a problem last time I worked on the potato harvest!