Keith Edkins

Wireworms? (and whatever fungus or bacteria that gets in to the holes they
make)

"Rodney Blackall" <rblackall@rodsrisc.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4e776f17c4rblackall@rodsrisc.demon.co.uk...
> This probably not the best place to post this, but I don't want to
> subscribe
> to another group for a single question.
>
> Last week we bought some red potatoes from Tesco and have had a long
> weekend
> break from eating them. This evening three of the remainder were found to
> have large soft patches and to be oozing an evil smelling, thin brown
> liquid. One of these had only a small bad patch so I thought to cut it
> away,
> the cut revealed a cluster of brown spots rather like lettering in a stick
> of rock. The spots ran the whole way through the quite large potato so it
> was discarded.
>
> I have never seen the like in 70 years; can anyone tell me what would
> cause
> this (NOT global warming please!)
>
> --
> Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
> Buckingham, ENGLAND
> Using Acorn SA-RPC, OS 4.02 with ANT INS and Pluto 3.03j
>
>