Carrots

After the disappointment of all the spuds being blighted in our first veg growing year at least the carrots seem to be doing well even if we only have about 20 Early Nantes as a try out. The soft sandy soil seems just right for them.A second batch of Autumn King are growing well too.
Here are our first two.

 

Nice carrots, glad you are having some luck this year, we had some nice carrots even though the garden was soaking wet. I found some blight on my potatoe tops today, there wasn't much so I pulled all the tops out and left the potatoes in the ground.

 

Just a thought, but I wonder if its possible that some potato problems might be misdiagnosed as blight. I say this because one year I lost an entire crop to what I thought at the time was blight, but in hindsight I think its more that they simply rotted because the ground they were in got too wet for too long.

 

You are quite right, many leaf problems are diagnosed as blight, but if the dark area of the leaf is underneath the leaf as well as on the top surface it means it is diseased right through the leaf and if it is wet with a fungal edge to it you can bet it is blight and if the conditions are right it can turn a crop to mush in 24 hours, so best not take chances.

 

Are you telling me that if the haulms go black with blight, the Tubers turn to mush in 24hrs ?

Jack McH

 

They might as well Jack, if the conditions under the haulms is perfect for blight the stems will rot just as the leaves do and the blight is sucked into the tubers, once this happens they won't keep and will rot in the ground if left, also if the rain washes the spores off the leaves it will wash down to the tubers and the blight will rot them very quickly.
We all know about the Irish potatoe famine.

 

Thanks for that info. I will keep and eye on them

I keep getting daily blight report in area for past 32 days of a Smiths ?

My tatties look very green and healthy foilage, some dug up are very clean clear skins

Jack McH