Have just lifted my early potatoes (Foremost bought at Homebase).

Many of them seem to have scab. Is this prevalent this year?

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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 13:58:48 +0100, David Rance
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Have just lifted my early potatoes (Foremost bought at Homebase).

Many of them seem to have scab. Is this prevalent this year?

There's none on our Roger's Plants Pickering bought potatoes.

http://www.rvroger.co.uk/home.htm
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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

David Rance wrote:
Have just lifted my early potatoes (Foremost bought at Homebase).

Many of them seem to have scab. Is this prevalent this year?

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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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