Gardening in England - Potato Blight

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Potato Blight

Squet34678

2007-06-06, 5:25 pm

I noted a couple of weeks back my spuds were getting brown spots on some of
the leaves, so I picked off the bad ones and sprayed it thoroughly with
copper solution, and have occasionally been picking browned leaves off ever
since. Today I looked and it's got much much worse and I wanted to know if
you think it's worth carrying on or if I should just ditch the plant now?

The leaves look like so:
http://www.cryptpad.com/potatoes/leaves.jpg
and I only noted today that there was a lot of mould growing on and around
the stems:
http://www.cryptpad.com/potatoes/stem.jpg

I've just dowsed the plant in copper solution again, but I fear all I've
done is just wash the mould further into the soil. What do you think? Is it
a goner or is it worth waiting?

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