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Alan Holmes · 11-01-2007, 05:19 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Sacha" wrote in message
...
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. ;-(

I'm sure he is right, Ray that is, I had a lot of them in my potatoes last
year, never had anything like that before, I did wonder whether it was
restricted to maincrop, so this year I'm only going to use first earlies and
second earlies.

Alan