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Can't believe it - have just received 'blight alert' for the Derby area from www.potato.org.uk !!!

It's only June

Bruno

Me too - in London!

And me! Was so glad to get the rain - but you just can't win !!

Guildford & Hayling Island just got one too!

 :o :o :o :o :o :o

I got this too but I took it to mean that there wasn't any blight.  (I don't know what the Full Smith Period means  ???)


Fight Against Blight Alerts:
for more detail please visit www.potato.org.uk/blight

No incidents found

BlightWatch Alerts:
for more detail please visit www.blightwatch.co.uk

Area: B42
Warning: Full Smith Period

Edited-
You all probably know about Smith Periods, but I didn't so I Googled it:=

A full Smith Period has occurred when:
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At least two consecutive days where min temperature is 10ºC or above and on each day at least 11 hours when the relative humidity is greater than 90%.

A 'near miss' occurs when one or both of the above two consecutive days has only 10 hours when the relative humidity is greater than 90% and the temperature is 10ºC or above. Note that a near miss is not recorded when temperature values are close to but not at the threshold value.

I just got my first one in Peterborough as well. Glad I only grow Sarpo's.

I got mine here in the Cotswolds.  Very depressing. 

Only one episode of rain so if this had fallen in one day rather than being split over two it would not have triggered a Smith Period. 

I suppose the point of the warning is not that there currently is any blight but that you can dash out and put all sorts of poisons on your plants to prevent it happening.  I am doing more earlies this year had hoped to harvest them before the blight strikes.

I am nore interested in preventing problems with my tomatoes.

Just ahd a FUll Smith for SN2 but no blight alert yet....

chrisc

It was a near miss is RG14 today.

We're SO22/23.

I got a text message (and email) this aafternoon, so we sprayed straight away to be on the safe side.

On checking the email, yesterday fulfilled the criteria but today is a near miss, so doesn't make the two-daya mark.

Grrrrr.

Yep - near miss period in WD24!

I've just signed up to blightwatch, but won't be able to log in until tomorrow; whereabouts in the Cotswolds are you Digeroo?? I'm on the northern slopes of Bath.

Yep I got my blight alert, but I'm growing in my back garden under cover so I should be OK.     ???      ;D ;D ;D

Had a blightwatch alert in Leicester too

got one here as well, durham dh6

If you get one, what is the best course of action please?  This is my first year  and I SO want to grow nice potatoes!

No need to panic yet guys......

Living in Cornwall we are the first to get blight before the rest of the country.  We have been having Smith Periods on/off since April....

The good thing is you need at least 7-10 days of continual Smith periods for a greater chance of Blight pathogen sporulation.

Also leaf wetness is a must.

I sprayed my crops yesterday as we have had a few red days now...

So don't panic just yet and cut your pots to the ground.

If you do catch blight, then remove all infected parts and burn them.  If the attack is severe then cut all plants to ground level and leave the tubers in the ground for two weeks.

Do not compost infected plants...

Sow early and dig up early seems to be the answer............

Then when we run out ......Imported spuds can be sold in the shops ...

Hmmm, smudge, not sure how good my Tomato yield will be if I cut them to the ground!!!  :P Actually I am!  ::)