new potatoes

[suee]

We dug up a couple of epicure first early potato plants yesterday (now about 12 weeks). They are lovely - varied sizes, but on each plant there was one mushy rotting potato. Could this be the original seed potato and should it happen?
Thanks, Sue.

[iainhawk]

yep the seed potato, always happens. more evident on earlies as it has had less time to rot.

[SueA]

Suee, the first time I ever grew potatoes I put my hand in to feel around for any & the first thing I grabbed was the rotted seed potato- I was horrified & thought they'd got some nasty blight or something until I found the others & realised what it was!

[janie]

My 2 1/2 year old daughter calls them the 'Mummy potato'. She loves emptying the potato buckets to find them and their babies