How to Save your Potato Crop if you get Blight

Potato blight can cause a huge problem by destroying your crops if you let it run its course. This video shows you what to do at 2 different stages if you have blight. Useful links:

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[SharonWilliams-tskt]

Blight has hit quick over the last few days so I'm cutting off all the foliage on my precious king edwards today. I know there are some decent sized potatoes in the ground because I lifted a couple of plants and I want to save the rest of them. Your information is better than anything I've read so far. So glad I found this video

[carriewebb]

Thanks, so much for sharing. Finding helpful information on this topic is very difficult. Most people tell you to remove any affected plants, but this has never been helpful to me. I have grown potatoes off and on for a total of 3 or 4 years and every year they have gotten blight. They seem to get it well before the tubers are sufficiently formed and I ultimately end up with no harvest. I'm glad to know that there are potential options.

[roomaloo]

Oh man, your vids are getting more n more slick. Loved the aerial flyby and also the 2ndary input. Good one :-)

[melaniebrian]

Great advice. I have an allotment and my crop of potatoes have been ruined by blight. I have taken out the potatoes but my soil smells awful now from the rotting.

My question is can I grow in that soil next year and what could I grow in soil that has had blight in, and any advice for the what to do with the soil and the rotting smell.

Thanks

[sharongrieve]

It was great to see your dad in your video you both have very helpful tips thank you

[ruthadams]

Great information, thanks. This is the first year I have blight

[teresamarques]

Thank you for sharing your wonderful video

[MFaith]

How do you tell the difference from blight and natural die back?

[philipgardner]

That was the most practical video I have watched on the problem, thank you from Australia 👍

[rickbear]

I did some research on the trials of ultra-fine netting to protect from late blight. They're talking about the possibility that the netting is reducing the availability of UV light. Also mentioning that the ultra-fineness of the netting may result in rain run-off stopping the foliage getting the damp conditions loved by late blight. My own thought is that once that ultra-fine netting becomes saturated with damp, fog or rainwater, it may act as a barrier to exclude the late blight spores. The reported results were inconclusive, as there was little blight when they ran tests. As I'm intending to plant a late (mid-July) batch of King Edward potatoes for Christmas Dinner, I'll be giving this a go. Perhaps others could join me, the ultra-fine 0.6mm apperture netting being cheap enough, and you guys could run a project to analyse the results?

[lynnelliot]

could you please advise the best way to store potatoes, and how long they will be ok stored? thanks for your great videos, I really enjoy all the info you give us

[mmmaria]

I live in Galicia (north of Spain, similar climate as Wales I believe, if any a bit warmer which makes it even worse for blight infestation) and we’ve been having a really rough time with this issue both in potatoes and tomatoes. It would be great if you made a video on tomato mildew since I don’t think any of my plants will make it through this season and I would like to plan some strategy to try to have better results next year. Thank you so much!

[iyanavee]

Those arial shots 😍😍😍 this is my dream garden ! I live in jamaica so blights not really a problem here. Most of my potatoes, tomates and yams end up ok . I'll move to north Florida soon tho not about how it will be there do thanks for the info .

[r.d.tjandra]

Have you tried to spray onion brew? I was successful on tomato with that method last year. The blight on the potato was already too advanced, so even though it helped a bit, but the plant was already too weak.

[davidmiller]

Thanks for a lot of useful information, but when is ‘now’ (3:00 in the video). How many weeks ago did you plant these? Mine have only been in the ground about 4 weeks and one or two of them have blight. The foliage on all of them is good though.

[petreawalsh]

Thanks for that most helpful advice 👩‍🌾

[metamud]

I take it affected voliage should not be added to a compost pile?

[brittanimscott]

Wonderful information; thanks to you both! ;)

[sonyasmith]

Thank you for that. Had to cut back all of mine from the bed. 😢

[Sloopy]

If you have cut your foliage down to remove the blight and leave the potatoes for two weeks can you reuse the compost they were grown in? Very useful video. Many thanks.