Potato crop

I have just dug up my small crop of "Isle of Jura" A large yield of farly big tubers albeit with scab, since I am on chalk. I have scrapped the lot.

They are riddled with slugs and yellow centipeds and I cannot inflict them on our kitchen .

I have already decided to only plant 1st and second earlies next year

What should I be doing to bet the bugs?

stony

 

Silly me I BET I don't do that one again.

Yes I have grown in buckets and bags but it's too much of a chore and the yield is not as good as in the garden bed. The slugs that get into the spuds seem to be living below ground and not surface dwellers and therefore are, I think, unlikely to eat the slug pellets. I have just found an article in one of my books that says, that there is no cure for this problem apart from digging the crop up prior to August, since that's when the slugs become a problem! Next year I shall forget main crops and plant earlies and second earlies instead. They will all be lifted before August. That should do it. I had no problem this year with the few second earlies that I planted.

Thanks for the reply.

stony