Potatoes ruined

[Two_Sheds]

...and I feel really sick.
Each of my Druid spuds have a hole in them, about 5mm across. I thought I'd carefully cut out the holes and eat the rest of the spud.

Then I found one of these inside, and in the next one, 2 of these snuggled up.

The whole crop is going in the bin

[Nicos]

Flipping heck- what a shame!
Can't blame you for binning them- how many are wasted?
Have you got really dry soil?- maybe it's the moisture they were after?

[weekendwellies]

Yeeeeew.
Just goes to show, even someone as experienced as 2sheds can have problems.
Gives hope to yearlings like me.

[piskieinboots]

what rotten luck TS ((hugs))

WEW - any gardener, new, experienced, in-between can have rotten problems like this, it is all part of the organic process of life

[JimineyC]

I've found plenty of chafergrubs when digging up parts of the lawn and have happily fed them to the blackbirds but none got my spuds fortunately. That's rotten luck. There are biological controls available which can be applied now to get them for next year.

[Snadger]

Send em to Ray Mears or the Bush Tucka Man........he'll eat em!

[Two_Sheds]

Have you got really dry soil?- maybe it's the moisture they were after?

I think you might be right, perhaps: however, I really wanted these spuds to be good, so I watered & mulched them (and not my other sorts).

I've found plenty of chafergrubs when digging up parts of the lawn

I've never had them in spuds before
But these spuds were planted in the worst patch of my new lotty; it was the first year cultivated for at least 8. Hopefully next year all the pests will be gone.
The millipedes were attacking my strawberries on the same patch, back in July.

[Bren In Pots]

Sorry to hear about your ruined spuds TS

[Two_Sheds]

I did have a great year for sweetcorn and pumpkins though Bren. Can't win em all

[FionaH]

Shame about the spuds hon, those bugs look vile

[Alice]

Oh Two Sheds, that is so awful. So sorry you lost all your potatoes, just sickening.
I hope they do well for you next year.

[lottie dolly]

sorry about the potatoes two sheds,none of use know until we start to did them up,what they like,but you showed us what else can render the spudz useless

[Ken the Chef]

...and I feel really sick.
Each of my Druid spuds have a hole in them, about 5mm across. I thought I'd carefully cut out the holes and eat the rest of the spud.

Then I found one of these inside, and in the next one, 2 of these snuggled up.

The whole crop is going in the bin

Two sheds,
Do these little beasties attack Swedes too as the base of my swedes had lots of holes and channels all over them

[Snadger]

Two sheds,
Do these little beasties attack Swedes too as the base of my swedes had lots of holes and channels all over them

Could it be cabbage root fly larvae doing the damage to your swedes Ken?

[HeyWayne]

Cockchafer.

*has a little Beavis & Butthead moment*

Sorry to hear about your spuds TS. The end of one of my rows was dessimated by something, and coincidentally it was the dryer end of the bed (how's that for micro climate?).

Annoying when this kinda stuff happens innit?