[catweazle]

right err

im clearing a new (to me) plot. the top third was worked last year but the bottom has been wild for at least three but that beside the point. While digging the top bit today i came across the prior holders spuds, upon digging one of these out i saw the tell tale signs of blight (another plot holder agreed with me) im gessing this actualy started last year as the weather has been no where neer right for it. so now what? give spuds a miss this year? some sort of fungicide? perform an exorcism?

many thanks CW

[Kristen]

If you get any volunteer spuds coming up remove them immediately. Blight survives from season to season within spud tubers ... so no Spud plants, no blight.

That's not to say other plot holders will be so consciousness though ... and Blight can blow in on the wind from neighbouring Potato crops too

[pedro]

It might only be frosted spuds, which will resemble blight damage

[Gandan57]

It could be frost damage, especially if the top half is soft and the bottom seems O.K.

If the spuds had blight last summer they would be pretty well rotted by now. Do they smell?

[catweazle]

Do they smell?

most definatly 

pritty much rotted but i cut it with the spade and it looked like blight, apparently there was quite a bit going around the allotments last year...

still i hope it isnt i was hoping to put some spuds in but i'd rather not be responsable for bringing it back this year


many thanks  CW

[Gandan57]

That would explain why he left them in the ground then.
That`s the problem with taking over a new plot. You never know what was grown where and what diseases were present, unless the evidence is left behind of course!

[Paul Plots]

It might only be frosted spuds, which will resemble blight damage

That is a possibility. I would have thought that after the hefty winter we have had any blighted material would have rotted down...

Either way if you do want a potato crop this year stick the the section well away from the area that appears to have been used last year and keep a close eye out for trouble.

As someone has said.... there's always the risk of spores blowing in from else where....something we all have to contend with.