"Rod" wrote after me...

Bank them up well.
Also trying Golden Wonder but early signs aren't good, the one I dug up
yesterday had only small spuds that had all been ruined by Woodlice,
thousands of them! I can't type what I said, ladies present.

Golden Wonder is one of the worst.
Earthing up is something that's often dispensed with on deep beds - I
think that's a big mistake, it makes a huge difference to the amount
of slug damage - and to the number that go green.

I bank up spuds well but the Romano's could certainly done with even more as
we got a lot of green spuds growing on the stems in the air.
I sure I had read that Golden Wonder were Ok regarding slug damage,
obviously my source was wrong (or my memory).
So, who can recommend a maincrop white (ish) spud that is slug resistant and
a good keeper.

As for the biological anti-slug treatment, we used one last year without
much success, they are expensive too and you have to keep the ground rather
damp all the time you are using it, which in a normal year is difficult
here. Cheaper and less heartbreaking to buy a few sacks of Organic spuds.

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Regards
Bob
in Runnymede, 17miles west of London, UK