What Has Caused This...?

[braders]

Evening All

I dug a few plants up tonight and some of the white pots had nasty splits in them....dug up some reds too, but they were perfect. I planted them in front of the reds...so why have they split..?..I binned most of them...pic attached, not a very good one, sorry.

Regards to all

braders...

[SMS6]

it's all to do with water I think. They get too much water in a burst and that causes them to split. They are still edible though just clean up the split

[sewer rat]

I would go with SMS6. This splitting can occur if there is a prolonged dry spell followed by a lot of rain - and some varieties may be more prone than others.

[braders]

I would go with SMS6. This splitting can occur if there is a prolonged dry spell followed by a lot of rain - and some varieties may be more prone than others.

Its got to be the weather we are having at the moment then..?..thanks people.

Cheers
braders...

[rustylady]

Happened with my first early whites, Estima. Next row (Vanessa) were fine.

[rana]

It seems a terrible waste to bin perfectly good food. Remember not all home grown produce has the 'perfection' demanded by supermarkets. Would you also bin forked carrots?

[Two_Sheds]

..I binned most of them..

lol
If you want perfect veg, you'd better get to Tesco
they would've been fine sliced & diced, mashed, fried ...

[Nicos]

Ah now then- I have visions of braders head first in the bin retrieving the crop!!!

...don't waste them- I certainly wouldn't!
I'm pretty sure they will store for a while too when the outer layer has dried off!

[seasprout]

It happens to mine a bit, they are in containers and we (sometimes) get quite dry weather, still eat em though.!

[gojiberry]

I have had every thing on mine, slugs, eel worm, rats, splitting and a bit of blight. I still don't throw them away till I have retrieved what is edible. Dug two rows with terrible eel worm damage but still managed to get two days worth of chips out of them.

Ian

[bluemoon]

I think if a variety has a high dry matter content it survives this sort of thing better than a variety with a high water content.