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Anyone like to share their thoughts on how different varieties survived this Year of Blight?
I followed the advice of Another Magazine, and cut off the foliage of infected plants. This meant the ones I was a bit late planting (Edzell Blue, Milva and Roseval) didn't get enough time to grow. And the bed is shady, which isn't ideal, unless you're a potato-blight spore, in which case it's great.
Premier did okay - one badly-infected plant, but only a couple of tubers lost.
Edzell Blue I dug up today - badly blighted, only a few little survivors.
Milva was worse, almost nothing there, and Roseval doesn't seem to have grown anything - not even any blighted tubers in the soil.
I was growing Pink Fir Apple in old compost sacks, forgot they're a late variety, and tipped one lot out far too soon, but they were happier in the sacks than the others were in the ground. Some slugs were sharing: huge ones, grey with orange tutus.
This year's best, I think, has been Osprey, which looks like it may be pretty blight-resistant. Their only small drawback is they seem to tend to side-shoot - I keep finding them in the wrong row, or even the wrong bed!
I followed the advice of Another Magazine, and cut off the foliage of infected plants. This meant the ones I was a bit late planting (Edzell Blue, Milva and Roseval) didn't get enough time to grow. And the bed is shady, which isn't ideal, unless you're a potato-blight spore, in which case it's great.
Premier did okay - one badly-infected plant, but only a couple of tubers lost.
Edzell Blue I dug up today - badly blighted, only a few little survivors.
Milva was worse, almost nothing there, and Roseval doesn't seem to have grown anything - not even any blighted tubers in the soil.
I was growing Pink Fir Apple in old compost sacks, forgot they're a late variety, and tipped one lot out far too soon, but they were happier in the sacks than the others were in the ground. Some slugs were sharing: huge ones, grey with orange tutus.
This year's best, I think, has been Osprey, which looks like it may be pretty blight-resistant. Their only small drawback is they seem to tend to side-shoot - I keep finding them in the wrong row, or even the wrong bed!
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