More blight.

[tim]

Never known it get to the tubers as quickly as this. Milva. In fact, never had it on the tubers before.

[tim]

[saddad]

Dreadful isn't it... I'm dreading digging my Picaaso and King Ed's that I defoliated two weeks ago... have to be done this week... after next wed.
:'(

[Marymary]

Yuk, that's horrid. 

Makes one understand the devastation it caused in Ireland in the past.

[kt.]

Ouch!        Well..... at least I now know what to look out for now I know what blight looks like.

[Froglegs]

I dug up a row of (15ft) International kidney this morning, about 60% of looked the same as your's Tim, and going by the rocket i dug up 3 weeks ago that looked fine at the time but are now rotting, i will have to utillze  strait away. :'(

[gwynleg]

I have just dug up my Edzell Blues - I had to cut the haulms off 3-4 weeks ago because of blight. Amongst each lot there were rotted ones and ones that look ok. I am a bit worried about the storage of the others now - presumably if one goes they all go? How do other people manage this?
Thanks

[Kepouros]

tim, I`m afraid that looks like a case of doing nothing for too long. Whether you cut them down and risk wasting the crop, or whether you carry them on for another two or three weeks, you have to act within a few days.

If you want to run them on you need to start defoliation of affected foliage as soon as the spots first appear, and you need to keep on doing it on a daily basis, removing immediately any stems that begin to show the brown streaks. That way you`ll still get clean tubers. (See my latest thread on the Edible Plants board).

gwynleg, the safest way to deal with your remaining Edzel Blues is to store them as you would with apples - laid out in trays and not touching each other. If you use tomato trays you can still stack them, but drape the stack with sacks or something similar to keep the light out.  You can then inspect them regularly and weed out any duff ones as they show.