[DD.]

Just had a notification of a full Smith Period for the LE1 (City of Leicester) postcode area.

Smith Period Definition

[Iain@JBA]

Hopefully it will just be early blight and not cause many problems.

[richyrich7]

Cheers DD. 

[DD.]

Further notification of full Smith Period for numerous LE postcode areas.

Here's me stuck in Wales!

[Trillium]

Not much you can do about Smith Periods when the crops are already growing. That'll teach you to dally in Wales, DD 

[AndyRVTR]

I also got a text warning me of the same up here in the NE...

[Faz]

Same down here in sunny Kent. A Full Smith period followed immediately with a near miss.

Must keep an eye open!

[Salmo]

Also in PE area. This means that conditions are right for blight spores to develop. No cases have been found of blight in potato crops. Blight has been found in Cornwall and Kent but these were on volunteers and potato dumps. Clean up your plot, hoe out volunteers and pull out potatoes growing in compost heaps. Check on your neighbours plot and politely hint that they should do the same.

Wether we get blight depends of the weather in the next week. Symptom on plants could show in about a week. I shall wait and see if Blightwatch finds cases on farms before I apply dithane. Dithane and bordeaux mixture protect the leaves but do not kill blight once it is in the plants.

[mumofstig]

No blight confirmed yet in kent that i can see..............suspected case  in Margate not confirmed yet when i looked today...........let's hope it stays that way

[Howard]

We had a near-miss last Tuesday, a full Smith Period yesterday and I suspect today will be pretty close. 

[down the lane]

We have had several smith periods this last week and I am watching the crop like a hawk.

This is the first time I've grown Potatoes/Veg and i really don't want to loose them. I hope that I dont get an infection, I am not on an allotment and am roughly 1 mile away from any housing estates. Although I am using a site that was once a garden the owner tells me that nothing has been grown on it far at least 50 years Fingers crossed and I hope I wont have to use Dithane.

[aelf]

I also got a text warning me of the same up here in the NE...

how does the text thing work? and where do I find info on smith periods for my area?

[richyrich7]

I also got a text warning me of the same up here in the NE...

how does the text thing work? and where do I find info on smith periods for my area?

Try here

[aelf]

Thanks Richyrich. Glad to see no evidence of blight round my way. Will keep an eye out from now.

[peapod]

Thanks Richy, I can get text alerts now