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  • #1

    potato damage

    One of my potato plants has collapsed. Dead.

    The stem's looking green and squishy and I suspect slugs & snails. I can't recall them ever going for the actual growing plant bit of a potato before. Anyone else had this? Or other ideas (I'm pretty sure its not blight).
    Garden Grower
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    it doe's sound strange,then so again is this season,i would dig it up and have a see whats under the ground,after all it won't grow anymore without it's leafes,and you may have some nice little spuds to eat,
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    • #3
      slugs quite happy to eat haulm.

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      • #4
        Have a look for my Slugs BBC article thread.
        http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...cle_66660.html

        I posted some photos of slugs eating my spuds.

        It appears they love maris pipers and will happily eat them rather than anything else.
        Last edited by alldigging; 06-07-2012, 11:45 AM.

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        • #5
          Snails ate all the leaves off mine, but the stems weren't squishy.

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          • #6
            Some of the branches off the main stem of one of mine have been eaten, but the plant is thriving again after I squished about 10 snails I found living in the potato bag with the plant.

            Andy
            http://vegpatchkid.blogspot.co.uk/ Latest Blog Entries Friday 13 Mar 2015 - Sowing Update

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            • #7
              Thanks all -- damn the slugs! Although it also occurred to be later that it could have been sat on by a pigeon to get things going...
              Garden Grower
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              • #8
                Hope you get a boiling of potatoes from it at least Jacob.
                Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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