That's it - early blight on potatoes....

[antipodes]

The earlies are starting to get yellow leaves with spots on them... sigh. Hope it doesn't spread to the mains which are about 4 feet high... I will have to dig up the affected plants or at least cut the haulms and put more bordeaux mixture on the others. Trouble is it keeps getting rained off!!!!

[antipodes]

[Stevens706]

Sorry to hear that, hopefully you will be able to save some crop

[realfood]

It does not sound like blight to me, but normal dying down of earlies. Have you checked to see if the crop is ready?

[Fayzie]

Sounds like what my earlies are like and they have a beautiful crop ready underneath!

[strawberry1]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=potato+blight+pictures&hl=en&prmd=imvnsfd&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7d_YT725DtD18QPQg7icAw&ved=0CHAQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=653

[bluecar]

Hello Antipodes.

I agree with realfood. Unless your green leaves are going black, it is just your plants dying off.

Regards

Bluecar

[BarriedaleNick]

We fear we may have some on our plot which hasnt previously suffered potato blight for years.  We are keeping an eye on it but it could be a terrible year fir spuds and toms..

[davyw1]

I think you have set the table but put nowt onto eat, they have run out of food and dying back

[antipodes]

well, I admit that this has happened before but does not seem to affect the actual spuds. We are already eating them. Yesterday I went and cut the affected foliage and bordeauxed the others, which seem unaffected. So perhaps they are just dying off. But the brownish spots somehow seem.... not right. They are Belle de Fontenay earlies, planted early March.

Feeding - I never feed potatoes, but the area was heavily manured over the winter. The maincrop don't seem to be suffering, I have never seen such large potato plants! They are in flower now. The maincrop are PinkFirApple, Claustar and nearby some purple Vitelottes.

I know it's not late blight as there is no blackening of the stems...