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Potato scab
Is it me or is it a bad year for scab? Whilst our earlies and second earlies
had little damage our maincrop Victoria which are usually clean are badly infected. Dry spring perhaps? -- Regards Bob Hobden Posting to this Newsgroup from the W.of London. UK |
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Potato scab
Bob Hobden wrote:
Is it me or is it a bad year for scab? Whilst our earlies and second earlies had little damage our maincrop Victoria which are usually clean are badly infected. Dry spring perhaps? We've only just lifted our 2nds, and I agree, there does seem a lot of it. ANnoyingly, Nick made me buy something for him that is meant to reduce scab, but he never got round to doing it. (as with soooooo many things) |
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: Bob Hobden wrote: Is it me or is it a bad year for scab? Whilst our earlies and second earlies had little damage our maincrop Victoria which are usually clean are badly infected. Dry spring perhaps? We've only just lifted our 2nds, and I agree, there does seem a lot of it. ANnoyingly, Nick made me buy something for him that is meant to reduce scab, but he never got round to doing it. (as with soooooo many things) Scab here too, some on first earlies which we are still lifting. Everything gets watered normally, but not often enough lately. I have no second earlies as Pentland Javelin as first earlies seem to fill that gap. I have 2* 6m rows of maincrop Marris Piper and Cara, and seeing your post had a looksee and they are riddled with scab. I only put them in as a last minute decision because last year was the same and had a bit of space where I tore out the brussels sprouts which had a bad infestation of whitefly. Scab just looks bad though, doesn't it, no real harm. If you boil them they go mushy quickly as well? I can come around to living with it. Bloody well have to now! The Deed is done. Baz |
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Vicky wrote ... Bob Hobden wrote: Is it me or is it a bad year for scab? Whilst our earlies and second earlies had little damage our maincrop Victoria which are usually clean are badly infected. Dry spring perhaps? We've only just lifted our 2nds, and I agree, there does seem a lot of it. ANnoyingly, Nick made me buy something for him that is meant to reduce scab, but he never got round to doing it. (as with soooooo many things) Scab here too, some on first earlies which we are still lifting. Everything gets watered normally, but not often enough lately. I have no second earlies as Pentland Javelin as first earlies seem to fill that gap. I have 2* 6m rows of maincrop Marris Piper and Cara, and seeing your post had a looksee and they are riddled with scab. I only put them in as a last minute decision because last year was the same and had a bit of space where I tore out the brussels sprouts which had a bad infestation of whitefly. Scab just looks bad though, doesn't it, no real harm. If you boil them they go mushy quickly as well? I can come around to living with it. Bloody well have to now! The Deed is done. There are more resistant varieties we might try next year..... (depends which scab it is) First Early.... Arran Pilot; Home Guard; Swift; Second Early and Maincrop.... Admiral; Celine; Golden Wonder; Hermes; King Edward; Nicola; Russet Burbank; Saturna; That said we got our "Mayan Twilight" up today as they too had finished growing and no sign of scab at all, not a "maincrop" spud though if you see what I mean, a smaller tubered special that makes the most beautiful sauté spuds and cooks in half the time. Our Second early "Kestrel" were not too badly affected either. Only got "Stemster" still to get up but that is still growing. -- Regards Bob Hobden Posting to this Newsgroup from the W.of London. UK |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in
: "Baz" wrote ... Vicky wrote ... Bob Hobden wrote: Is it me or is it a bad year for scab? Whilst our earlies and second earlies had little damage our maincrop Victoria which are usually clean are badly infected. Dry spring perhaps? We've only just lifted our 2nds, and I agree, there does seem a lot of it. ANnoyingly, Nick made me buy something for him that is meant to reduce scab, but he never got round to doing it. (as with soooooo many things) Scab here too, some on first earlies which we are still lifting. Everything gets watered normally, but not often enough lately. I have no second earlies as Pentland Javelin as first earlies seem to fill that gap. I have 2* 6m rows of maincrop Marris Piper and Cara, and seeing your post had a looksee and they are riddled with scab. I only put them in as a last minute decision because last year was the same and had a bit of space where I tore out the brussels sprouts which had a bad infestation of whitefly. Scab just looks bad though, doesn't it, no real harm. If you boil them they go mushy quickly as well? I can come around to living with it. Bloody well have to now! The Deed is done. There are more resistant varieties we might try next year..... (depends which scab it is) First Early.... Arran Pilot; Home Guard; Swift; Second Early and Maincrop.... Admiral; Celine; Golden Wonder; Hermes; King Edward; Nicola; Russet Burbank; Saturna; That said we got our "Mayan Twilight" up today as they too had finished growing and no sign of scab at all, not a "maincrop" spud though if you see what I mean, a smaller tubered special that makes the most beautiful sauté spuds and cooks in half the time. Our Second early "Kestrel" were not too badly affected either. Only got "Stemster" still to get up but that is still growing. -- Regards Bob Hobden Posting to this Newsgroup from the W.of London. UK Well, it looks like you have covered your bases and grown a very large selection. My first earlies were Arran Pilot which have only slight scab, but the rest I have not grown. A lot of people around here grow Golden Wonder as you have. I am going to give them a go as they are the type I like(floury) and why not? Baz |
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"Baz" wrote .
"Bob Hobden" wrote in "Baz" wrote ... Vicky wrote ... Bob Hobden wrote: Is it me or is it a bad year for scab? Whilst our earlies and second earlies had little damage our maincrop Victoria which are usually clean are badly infected. Dry spring perhaps? We've only just lifted our 2nds, and I agree, there does seem a lot of it. ANnoyingly, Nick made me buy something for him that is meant to reduce scab, but he never got round to doing it. (as with soooooo many things) Scab here too, some on first earlies which we are still lifting. Everything gets watered normally, but not often enough lately. I have no second earlies as Pentland Javelin as first earlies seem to fill that gap. I have 2* 6m rows of maincrop Marris Piper and Cara, and seeing your post had a looksee and they are riddled with scab. I only put them in as a last minute decision because last year was the same and had a bit of space where I tore out the brussels sprouts which had a bad infestation of whitefly. Scab just looks bad though, doesn't it, no real harm. If you boil them they go mushy quickly as well? I can come around to living with it. Bloody well have to now! The Deed is done. There are more resistant varieties we might try next year..... (depends which scab it is) First Early.... Arran Pilot; Home Guard; Swift; Second Early and Maincrop.... Admiral; Celine; Golden Wonder; Hermes; King Edward; Nicola; Russet Burbank; Saturna; That said we got our "Mayan Twilight" up today as they too had finished growing and no sign of scab at all, not a "maincrop" spud though if you see what I mean, a smaller tubered special that makes the most beautiful sauté spuds and cooks in half the time. Our Second early "Kestrel" were not too badly affected either. Only got "Stemster" still to get up but that is still growing. Well, it looks like you have covered your bases and grown a very large selection. My first earlies were Arran Pilot which have only slight scab, but the rest I have not grown. A lot of people around here grow Golden Wonder as you have. I am going to give them a go as they are the type I like(floury) and why not? I think you miss-understood me. This year we grew Earlies... Printaline and Inova (both excellent, best earlies we have ever grown) Second Earlies... Kestrel (a little scab) Maincrop... Victoria (usually excellent but bad scab this year), Stemster and Mayan Twilight (no scab). What I mentioned are the varieties that are scab resistant to some extent that we may look at for next year instead of Victoria. |
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Potato scab
Bob Hobden wrote:
That said we got our "Mayan Twilight" up today as they too had finished growing and no sign of scab at all, not a "maincrop" spud though if you see what I mean, a smaller tubered special that makes the most beautiful saut? spuds and cooks in half the time. I lifted my Mayan Twilight on Friday and had them in the show on Saturday. :-) They didn't half get some comments! Only came a disapponting 3rd, though. |
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