BRITISH SPUDS

Iv`e noticed that for a while Bea65.
Iv`e started buying loose as and when i need some.

is it because it has been so wet? some of the fields by me grow potatoes and the fields have been very wet all year

The weather's been bad this year, yet still I find they're best bought at the farm - and far tastier.

The farm doesn't use 'cake' on the potato fields, thank Heavens!

What ever is cake?

I’ve not noticed it with potatoes but I have with onions. They can look fine on the outside but when I cut into them they are soft and brown in the middle. All 3 onions I had yesterday were binned.

Were they old or new potatoes? Old potatoes have been kept in a clamp all winter and spring, and in the summer often have black marks or on extreme occasions black or brown in the middle.

No problem with early or main crop potatoes, onions are sound too, but I use a farm shop as well. The ‘earliest’ are from Somerset, I’ve had some Cypriot ones too which are lovely.

My thoughts exactly midgey.

The problem is general. We are in France and our neighbour welcomed us back with a big bucket of spud. The first one I went to use was hollow inside and rotting in parts.