Blight Warning: Thursday 26 June to Friday 27 June

My Potatoes

STATUS YELLOW

Blight Warning
Weather conditions conducive to the spread of Potato Blight will develop today and will continue on Thursday and Friday.

There will be opportunities for spraying today over much of the country, though opportunities will be limited in northern areas.

Issued:Wednesday 25 June 2014 04:00

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Olwas2013 · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 7:49 pm Post subject:

I'm away and I hope my potatoes didn't get it. Would the west kerry area be affected.

robbie checker · Rank attained: Hazel Tree Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 21

Had held off spraying my potatoes as mostly escaped last year. Noticed some blight on my early varieties yesterday and cut off the haulms as they were sown at end of March and were of good size.

Sprayed my other 2 batches which are main crop rooster, mayan gold and king edward and some early varieties of sharpes express, duke of york which I got half price and sowed in Mid May and which appear to be doing well even with the late start.

Qzy · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 8:40 am Post subject:

All of my Epicure got blight in the last few days so I dug them all up. So far my Sharpes Express and Main Crops all appear fine