potato damage

[jacob]

One of my potato plants has collapsed. Dead.

The stem's looking green and squishy and I suspect slugs & snails. I can't recall them ever going for the actual growing plant bit of a potato before. Anyone else had this? Or other ideas (I'm pretty sure its not blight).

[lottie dolly]

it doe's sound strange,then so again is this season,i would dig it up and have a see whats under the ground,after all it won't grow anymore without it's leafes,and you may have some nice little spuds to eat,

[Paulottie]

slugs quite happy to eat haulm.

[alldigging]

Have a look for my Slugs BBC article thread.
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...cle_66660.html

I posted some photos of slugs eating my spuds.

It appears they love maris pipers and will happily eat them rather than anything else.

[rustylady]

Snails ate all the leaves off mine, but the stems weren't squishy.

[Samurailord]

Some of the branches off the main stem of one of mine have been eaten, but the plant is thriving again after I squished about 10 snails I found living in the potato bag with the plant.

Andy

[jacob]

Thanks all -- damn the slugs! Although it also occurred to be later that it could have been sat on by a pigeon to get things going...

[Florence Fennel]

Hope you get a boiling of potatoes from it at least Jacob.