This should help a little, though you can get a similar marking in some
potatoes when they have had an overdose of Fertilizer.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestnote/rot.htm

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David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

"David Hill" wrote in message
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This should help a little, though you can get a similar marking in some
potatoes when they have had an overdose of Fertilizer.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestnote/rot.htm


Ta for that, astonishingly the sun had a good photo(s) of it today. Must be
true then, it's in the sun.

Steve

"David Hill" wrote in message
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This should help a little, though you can get a similar marking in some
potatoes when they have had an overdose of Fertilizer.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestnote/rot.htm

--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

Just a thought - the recent drive to recycle more, including brown wheelie
bins for household organic kitchen waste, must be increasing the amount of
infected potato waste going to compost instead of going to incinerator/tip.

So:

(1) Does composting destroy the disease spores?

(2) Does composted waste from these recycling programmes find its way into
general agriculture as well as domestic gardens?

Cheers
Dave R

In message , David W.E.
Roberts writes

"David Hill" wrote in message
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This should help a little, though you can get a similar marking in some
potatoes when they have had an overdose of Fertilizer.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestnote/rot.htm

--
David Hill
Abacus nurseries
www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk

Just a thought - the recent drive to recycle more, including brown wheelie
bins for household organic kitchen waste, must be increasing the amount of
infected potato waste going to compost instead of going to incinerator/tip.

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The notice on our brown wheelie bin (for garden waste) specifically
lists vegetable peelings (amongst other things) as NOT to be included.
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hugh
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Just a thought - the recent drive to recycle more, including brown
wheelie
bins for household organic kitchen waste, must be increasing the amount
of
infected potato waste going to compost instead of going to
incinerator/tip.

Snip
The notice on our brown wheelie bin (for garden waste) specifically
lists vegetable peelings (amongst other things) as NOT to be included.

And they check this how?

"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
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"hugh" ] wrote in message
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snip
Just a thought - the recent drive to recycle more, including brown
wheelie
bins for household organic kitchen waste, must be increasing the amount
of
infected potato waste going to compost instead of going to
incinerator/tip.

Snip
The notice on our brown wheelie bin (for garden waste) specifically
lists vegetable peelings (amongst other things) as NOT to be included.

And they check this how?

That's akin to the story of the busybody who chided me for putting a black
Nescafe bottle into the "white" bin. Luckily I had a penknife and a second
bottle available, which allowed me to show her that the black was only paint
on a transparent glass (white?) bottle. I had to follow this up with a
brief lecture to the effect that the black organic paint would burn off
without leaving a trace when the bottle was recycled.

Franz