Help.... Is this blight?

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« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2008, 21:39 »
It may just be the angle of that last piccie, but is the odd-looking plant also growing much taller than the others?
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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« Reply #16 on: June 03, 2008, 21:56 »
Weessy...... those leaves are exactly the same as my plants!

I've got raspberries (newly planted this year so not looking too bushy yet) next to my spuds so now I'm worried about them as well!

I will have a good look at them next time I'm at the plot! I'm also gonna dig up a sick spud and see what's going on underground!
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« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2008, 18:54 »
I've just seen some potato plants in a garden with such little, curled up leaves, asked the gardener, the answer was, that's where the frost got them.

Now I've never seen that type of frost damage on them, but then this is a person who gardened longer than how old I am and goes almost every single day, so he might well be right.

On the other hand in the same container there were potato plants with yellow mottling on too, quite like the one on the raspberries...

So I maintain, it could be a virus.
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« Reply #18 on: June 10, 2008, 21:52 »
Snap Dragon, My potatoes look as if they may be looking a bit better, I'm thinking I will still get a crop, have checked a couple for tubers and found reasonable ones, how are yours looking?

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« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2008, 22:19 »
Weessy.....

My spuds are soldiering on, bless 'em!



They are still curled up but have kept on growing, although they're not as strong as the healthier ones... I didn't bother digging one up in the end but I might have a little dig around now and see what's occurring underground.

Fingers crossed  :?

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« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2008, 02:40 »
Yup, lots of it about.

 First too cold, then hot, then too cold again. Wet/dry.

Plants are confused. They should sort themselves out when the weather does.

Could also be that any manure used was not as well rotted as it should be and is a little too rich.
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« Reply #21 on: July 21, 2008, 23:38 »
Quote from: "amberleaf"
Yup, lots of it about.
...... Could also be that any manure used was not as well rotted as it should be and is a little too rich.


Seems very like the aminopyralid toxic manure everyone's suffering with.
http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=18430

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« Reply #22 on: July 22, 2008, 18:59 »
hope its not the dreaded herbicide - poor you.  Very disappointing

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« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2008, 22:14 »
The potato effect looks very much like a chemical effect to me

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Used to be indecisive, now i'm not so sure...


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