"Charles P" wrote in message ...
East Tennessee. I've planted potatoes two times this year. Ordinarily,
they're my easiest crop. Stick 'em in the ground, mulch with leaves,
spray a few times for flea and potato beetles, and that's it. This year
we've had lots of rain. My taters never came up. I dig in my rows to
see what happened, and I find the rotten remnants. Most of the
chunks of seed potatoes never sprouted. Anybody else here in
the Southeast have similar results?

As soon as I cut the seed potato, I dip the exposed part in wood ash,
to prevent rot.