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Gary350
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I think my potatoes had blight.

I planted potatoes a month ago and they were looking fine. Then they turned brown and died. I pulled up the vines and dug up the soil but no potatoes.

My tomatoes been looking pretty brown too I been water them with baking soda and so far so good they are still doing ok.

LindsayArthurRTR
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Same here with the potatoes. I just dug up the 5 pounds of butterfingers that I planted in spring and got about 3 pounds of mostly pea sized potatoes. Some were big enough. Nothing longer than my finger. The irish whites were dead a month ago. We dug them up and ate them in one meal. IDK...if I plant again, it'll have to be something fun and showy. Like purple sweet potatoes, or maybe the pink potatoes, or maybe the all blues. They were pretty much a novelty item in my garden. Just thought I would give em a try.

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rainbowgardener
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Me too! My first year growing potatoes and they got all blighted and died. There's one plant left that came up later and seems to still be doing ok...

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My potatoes all got early blight. However, mine did not die from it until close to harvest time, so I still got a good harvest.

I planted my potatoes in March and they got early blight after they flowered.

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Mine never flowered and seem to never do in the 2 years I have grown them. But same here blight got mine though I did have a somewhat decent harvest. At least we were able to eat fresh potatoes. I did replant in the same spot just to see if I could squeeze out a few more. In one bed they all rotted, I put some sweet potatoes in there yesterday from some slips I had growing. The other bed the potatoes are growing but slowly. We shall see if I get anything. It's worth a try to me.



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