Robert (Plymouth) wrote:


"Donna UK" wrote in message
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Hi All

I am growing some potatoes for christmas and when I checked them
yesterday noticed what seems to be little blight spots appearing on
the leaves.

Now in someways I am not surprised with the warmish weather we have
been getting but was wondering if I would be ok to leave the tops on
and just remove the few leaves wtih spots on?

The forecast say that the weather is going to get colder so dont want
to hack it all down if I can still keep them growing. They have only
been in for two months so still need another month or two at least to
get a decent crop.

What would you advise?

Donna

I hate to put a damper on things but if they survive the next few cold
nights they'll be very brave potatoes, blight or no blight. It can do no
harm to pick off the infected parts as there isn't really any
alternative I suppose. Good luck
Consider yourself fortunate, Mine got blight almost as soon as they I
put then in the ground!