Potatoes ruined

[SueA]

Could have been worse Two Sheds, you might not have noticed the holes & cooked the potatoes & then found HALF a chafer grub in one!
It's a shame though that you had to throw them all away.

[FB.]

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?

The soil in my area (near Cambridge) is dry and sandy, with low rainfall.
We have lots of cockchafers, every summer. they especailly love to buzz around the top of trees and chimney pots. They also buzz around people if you stand in the middle of the field from which the beetles fly up out of the ground.
Many people who've moved to Cambridge area say that they've never seen them until they come here.

Strangely, although we only grow a modest amount of potatoes, we've not had cockchafer eating them before. The main problem is slugs if we delay lifting the "ready-to-eat" potatoes in wet periods.

[harrybrew69]

slug damage decimated most of my spuds this year, also from a freshly turned part of the plot