Growing Potatoes, good time to check the foliage.

As my crop of potatoes, even the first earlies, will be late in being harvested this year, partly because of weather conditions they were planted late and so did not get off to a quick start. It is important to check the leaves for signs of blight and then to decide what to do if the leaves are showing the telling signs of markings and unhealthy looking foliage.

I am hoping that they are not affected, but it is always worth checking, especially if we have a mix of warm weather and damp or rainy times.

Last year as so many of the plots were affected we ended up removing the foliage and then harvesting them all later. To say that in 2012 we had a disappointing year for our potatoes, is probably something of an understatement.