Blight has arrived

[womble]

Not according to the blightwatch map.

And I don't see what else it could be, I know what blight looks like.

[rustylady]

For goodness sake, why are you pulling your potatoes up?????? Even if you do have blight it will only affect the leaves. Leave them alone till the leaves are dead, then carefully clear the foliage and burn or put in the bin (don't compost). You will then probably have useable potatoes in the soil.

[baggyman]

Does anyone else think this Blightwatch thing has given people the colley wobbles and we're being a bit hyper sensitive to blight?
I think people are rushing to pull up their tatties too soon, at the sight of a black spot on a leaf in some cases!

Blight

[kittykat8]

I am not pulling mine up just picking off the leaves, as long as the misty weather stays away before we have some more rain it will be ok.

Marion

[Two_Sheds]

Baggy, I agree totally. People aren't even looking at the Blightwatch map to see where the actual cases are being reported: perhaps Blight is the new black, and it's fashionable ?
this photo is blight: http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to...light/main.jpg
and it ain't a brown crispy leaf, it's a black soggy one. The infections starts at the EDGE of a leaf, not the centre.Potato blight | Problem solving | How to | BBC Gardeners' World
As RustyLady says, even if you do get a bit of it, you don't need to dig out your whole crop ~ just cut off and bin any infected leaves to stop it spreading to the tubers.

[SarzWix]

Good links Two_Sheds! I think it's worth pointing out too, that with Early potatoes the tops do start dying back a bit when they're about ready to harvest, usually from the bottom up in my experience, which causes the leaves to go yellow etc.