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Old 11-01-2007, 04:04 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 11/1/07 15:25, in article
, "Andy"
wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to growing my own veg and last year I grew potatoes for the
first time. Although I had some success I lost around one third of my
crop. The main pest was a small greyish coloured worm that borrowed
into the potato. I originality thought this was eel worm but I gather
they are very small, these pests were around 4mm.

Does anyone know what this pest might be and what I could do? The best
approach I can think off at the moment is to order a different variety
to last year, maybe some thing disease resistant like Kestrel.

We were given a batch of potatoes something as you describe. Ray said baby
slugs, possibly. ;-(
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Sacha
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