Emptied my first pot of potatoes this evening. First Earlys, maybe Red
Duke of York (?) they were a lovely pinky red and covered with tiny
white spots. The white spots came off when I scrubbed them under the
tap. What's that then? some kind of fungus?

TW

In article , TimW wrote:
Emptied my first pot of potatoes this evening. First Earlys, maybe Red
Duke of York (?) they were a lovely pinky red and covered with tiny
white spots. The white spots came off when I scrubbed them under the
tap. What's that then? some kind of fungus?

Dunno, but very likely. Most fungi are saprophytes, and do no harm
to multicellular organisms. And there a a zillion of them!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 11 Jun 2017 22:53, TimW wrote:
Emptied my first pot of potatoes this evening. First Earlys, maybe Red
Duke of York (?) they were a lovely pinky red and covered with tiny
white spots. The white spots came off when I scrubbed them under the
tap. What's that then? some kind of fungus?


We get that sometimes on our spuds planted in the plot. Does not seem
to cause any harm although we noticed it was worse on some that had the
start of blight.

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Regards
Bob Hobden