Frosted spuds
Moderators: KG Steve, Chantal, Tigger, peter
As per every year, I leave a quantity of my potatoes in the soil over winter and harvest them only when needed. The last crop of salad potatoes were killed by blight in October, but not before the July-planted tubers had generated a good harvest. Recently, the harsh frost froze the ground were the plants had been left. Prior to this, when I dug them up, the potatoes were fine. Post-frost, many of the uppermost tubers are now quite soft. Is this common and can I use them still? Some of the tubers have since succumbed to blight (the softness being part of the spread of the disease). However, is the soft condition of the other tubers necessarily down to the spread of blight after they have been frozen by the frost or simply the affect of the frost?
