On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, The Devil's Advocate wrote:

Scab is more likely to be a problem if you have limey soil. They say putting
grass cuttings around the seed potatoes in the trench helps avoid it

Haven't had this problem before and I always rotate the crops. I don't
think that the soil is particularly limey here in the Thames basin.

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