[Highfield]

Virtually overnight - no sign of brown patches but all the rest fine!  the dead bit is where i broke a leaf off with teh hose clumsy me....  Any idea please? Or is this the first sign of dying down  - they are the free ones I had from Marshalls - cant remember the name!

[Ropster]

I got some free Hunter Spuds, dont know where from. They all just died in a similar way

[Iain@JBA]

Have a look at the bottom of the shaw where it goes into the ground and see if it is black and slimey. If it is then it could be blackleg.

[Highfield]

The ones that are yellow are a bit dark and slimy at the bottom but there are still one or two green shoots that are ok form the same plant - should I pull it up anyway in case?

[plainfield57]

that looks like blackleg lift infected plants and burn not good news caused by poor tubers

[home made pie]

Believe it or not I have just this minute come in from the plot after digging up one of my potato plants that looked exactly the same as yours (a funny yellow one in a row of otherwise perfectly healthy ones) and got 7 small but very healthy spuds

I'd say dig it up as you don't want to risk infecting the rest

Jan

[Highfield]

Right decision made - it comes up tonight just in case.   

Thanks everyone

[Highfield]

Did the deed and got a punnet full of medium sized spuds.  Cleared all the leaves and put for burning although when I actually dug it up the stems and roots looked fine - just yellow leaves and a few old ones at the bottom.

They were Hunters that I got free - I looked up the records from the email confirmation but that is as much as I know about them really - the others are fine in full leaf and not flowered yet so fingers crossed will get a decent sized crop in due course!

The Sarpos that I bought are now bigger than the Hunters though the Hunters shot away very fast - and the Sarpos are now in flower.  Tortoise and Hare maybe LOL

Anyway will enjoy the first of the new spuds ( I did furtle a couple of weeks ago and got about 5 babies just to try- and one of the dogs ( the girl) ate the lot while I wasnt looking!  She isnt gonna get these ..... )