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Dug a row of Charlotte potatoes today and they'd been touched by blight.
Most plants had an affected tuber, some had many, a few had none.

The worst affected tubers were like bags of custard with added rubber for stretchy sticky yellow slime in a paper bag.

The worst thing was :shock: the smell.


Could be the worst thing I've smelt in a long time.
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Know just what you mean Peter. I must have bagged up a couple by mistake when I dug my Foremost and the same thing happended to me.
Disgusting. A job for the week-end to check on the rest.

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A couple of weeks ago I found a dead rat in the polytunnel. Rather than throw it out where the hens would have been at it, I buried it in a vacant bit of border, fairly shallow. A few days later I walked on the border, heard a crunch - then the stink :shock: :shock:

Certainly topped the smell of blighted potatoes :!:
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Cook had something boiling on the hob earlier. :)
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I was very tempted to reply to that OH, but thought better of it!!!!

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No supper again OH! :D

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oldherbaceous wrote:Cook had something boiling on the hob earlier. :)



Your socks perchance?
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You're braver than me Peter.

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Seems Peter was absolutely right :wink: :wink:

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I don't seem to have any secrets any more. :)
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Ah never mind, we still love you.

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