Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: p00rstudent on October 16, 2008, 14:04
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went down the plot last night and found that one of my potato varities are looking very dead, they were fine when i was down there at the weekend.
the stems and some of the leaves have turned black and are now collapsing, i have 3 rows of potatoes containing two diffiernt varities cant remember which now they are earlys though, and only one variety is affected.
so my question is a/ what is it?
b/ what do i do about it?
my first thought was blight but i am not sure i am now thinking it might be blackleg possibly? this is my first attempt at growing potatos, and they were doing great till this week so am a littled annoyed that they have now failed.
oh and some more info i am in southampton, hampshire, they are on a plot that hasnt been used for 10 years or more (prior to me), they were planted about 2 months ago cant remember the exact date. i will try and take a photo at the weekend to help with the identification.
thank you for any help
Paul
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Early spud haulms are usually well dead by now - in fact all my lates are. Could simply be old age.
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they have only been in the ground for 2 months i thought they would need a bit longer yet.
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Ah missed that bit - were you hoping for new spuds for Christmas?
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that was the intention yes.
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Especially with late in the season, really hard to say a thing, without seeing.
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have you been hit by any night time frosts? that would turn them black pretty much overnight and we are due for the frosts to start :(
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yes we had a frost earlier in the week but i would have thought that frost would have affected both varites. though not just the one?