potato leaves turning yellow?

[Becca]

Hello,

A few of my early potatoes developed strange yellow, warped looking leaves, does anyone have any idea what this might be? I pulled the plants up just in case thinking it might be something nasty like blight (first growing year so I didn;t know what it looked like) and found that they mostly had nomal looking potatoes growing underneath (which i ate on sunday night, lovely) and only a couple of mushy ones.. does anyone know what this might be? I put the foliage on the bonfire pile just in case..

Cheers,

Becca

[shirlthegirl43]

The leaves and stems do turn yellow when the spuds are ready to harvest. The mushy spuds you found are the original spud you planted.

[Becca]

ahh.. so in a round about way I did the right thing.. even if i thought they were wrong.. cool, thank you, I thought I had something virulent..