I have an unusual thing happening to my Yukon Gold potatoes. This is affecting two of the plants. The stem just seems to have dried up and died at the base of the plant. I've never seen this before. Not sure if it will spread, or what I should do. The red potatoes have not been affected. Any ideas?


(Now I can be the vice president, as I can't spell potato!) guess you can't edit the title.

Tom, I fixed it for you

Not sure what is going on with your plants, hopefully someone will know something.

Thanks Patti, but like Will Rogers said, "I never met a man I could trust who only had one way to spell a word."

My potatoes all did something similar this year - they died back to the ground, and when I dug to look at the roots, there was nothing to find, like they had completely rotted away. I'm not sure what caused it either - we've had a strange year for weather, and I also know that I have root knot nematodes in the soil (I had suspected them initially, but without knotty roots, I don't think I can really blame them).

What ever this issue was, it cleared itself up. Just those two plants had some stems die back, the rest of the plant has recovered, so I guess something must have chewed the stem off below the ground or something. Been a wierd year for things in the garden I'd say.