[Diggerpete]

Anyone seen any sign of potato blight yet?

[Aunt Sally]

None where I am yet

You can check your area here:

Potato Blight Areas

[Diggerpete]

We seem to be free of it so far. Better than last year, we'd lost the lot by now.

[GrannieAnnie]

Well, although it doesn't appear on the potato blight watch thingy in my area.  My early spuds were looking very sad, but yellowing leaves with small brown spots.  So I thought that's just the foliage dying down normally, but then today, my pink fir apple foliage is the same, and they aren't supposed to be ready yet!  Then I looked in the bag (a proper potato bag!) where I'd put the earlies I dug up a few days ago and some of them are rotten, although they were okay when I put them in there, and quite a few look green, although they are in a potato bag.  So I'm puzzled, but I had them in the greenhouse as I don't have a shed anymore, wondered if that would make things worse.

[agapanthus]

Our next door neighbour has blight in his garden.....mind you it's a very sheltered garden. Our potatoes are out in the wind and we hav'nt got any. Fingers crossed it stays that way!!!

[Swing Swang]

Got blight on my 'salad blue' potatoes; third week in May in Basingstoke. Heritage variety from Alan Romans.

They had really 'taken off' so I managed to get a reasonable crop of interesting blue tubers which roast really well, and look/taste great in salads when mixed with orange sweet-peppers (great colour contrast).

Had a look around the local allotments in June - no sign of blight there.

Visited about a dozen local 'open gardens' three weeks ago and spoke to a few veg-gurus - they'd not had any problems either.

Just plain unlucky. Next year I'm sticking to first earlies and Sarpo varieties.

Swing Swang

[Diggerpete]

You mentioning Alan Romans. I was visiting a freind in France (Normandy) the other week. She grows her own veg and her potatoes were looking a bit iffy, I would say going over rather than blight, she was advised to dig them all up, but I thought maybe leave itand see what happens(keep an eye on them). She gets all her spuds from Alan Romans.

[chicken soup]

Being new to growing veg etc I take it their leaves have brown patches and die off if you get blight and the potatos rot, am I correct?  I have some Saxon maincrop potatos that had brown spotted leaves so presumed it was blight and took all the leaves off and will be digging them up soon have I done the right thing?