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Mild mosaic showing in the leaves as a yellow mottle, a secondary infection from the seed tuber.

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Welcome through! Some warm weather due for the next few days so these will grow quickly now they have emerged.

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Maris Piper ware potatoes growing well given the rain and cold conditions so far in June
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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

The start of tuber initiation, the hook stage.

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Three in a bed Hermes seed growing well in the cold.

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Almost the middle of June. Some catching up to do for some stocks.

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Happy New year to everyone involved in potatoes from minituber production, to ware growers to cooks all over the world.

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Hope everyone's roast potatoes were as good as ours and they had a great day. Merry Christmas.

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Storage can be tricky most seasons but this year will threw up many issues as the season goes on. Stocks need to be properly dried and cured and checked regularly over the coming weeks and movement plans changed to suit. Storage advice is available anytime
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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Many seed and ware varieties have growth cracks this season from Rhizoctonia. From small lines to deep cracks. Ware will be hit hard for this and seed stocks are being picked hard to pass inspections. This will also reduce the availability of some seed varieties further.

[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Many harvesters on the go lifting what is still left in the ground. Still a few thousand acres to go but it has come down a lot in the past two weeks. Many acres will not be lifted and good storage techniques will be crucial in saving what is lifted.

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[Tim Kitson @potatosolutions]

#potato storage geeks check this out. Running a glycol fridge to heat. Bringing cold air in, warming dropping RH, drying and most importantly pushing damp air out. Look at outside °c and how far louvres are open. While maintaining crop temp. 🥔 💣

[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

Thank you natural predators, keep eating those aphids as it is too late for this plant but keep up the good work and prevent it spreading.

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@FarmersWeekly Get well soon Harry, not long until the potato harvest starts and we might need an extra driver.

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@AnnRudbeck Dad's are usually a fount of knowledge. You are welcome, ask anytime you have a potato based question and I will help to the best of my knowledge.

[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

A busy bee on a mission

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[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

@AnnRudbeck You can reuse the bags as long as you clean them and use new, clean compost. Depending where you live, you can plant from January through to August as long as you avoid frost and have new potatoes to eat from May till December.

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@AnnRudbeck This can affect the amount of tubers you have to eat but will not stop you eating them. The virus is passed to other potato plants via aphids so if the best thing to do is harvest this plant, eat all the potatoes and don't replant any of them. Buy new certified seed for next year

[All About Potatoes @potatoknowledge]

@AnnRudbeck A secondary infection ( from the tuber planted ) will have more of the lower leaves rolled and they will feel brittle and paper like. Over time the top leaves will yellow although this will happen now as the plant is mature and begins to die back and starts to senescence.