Got my first Blight warning!!

[teakdesk]

Blightwatch have emailed me my first Blight Alert of the season - thankfully only a "near miss" for my area but it still seems early for the year!!

You can sign up for the service here.

[teakdesk]

Just for info (it might stop some worries!!)....

When I was checking my spuds over the weekend I noticed some leaf damages and took a photo.

This is NOT blight, I'm pretty sure, but just Bacterial Speck - a fungus that likes to attack leaves that have got wet during watering.

[pdblake]

I got one too.

[SarzWix]

I got one for postcode TA45 I must have put that code in for somebody else, because it's the other end of the country! So, if you're in TA45 - there's a blight warning for your area!

If anybody wants further information about blight, including pics, there's a marvellous thread in Growing Techniques from last year; http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ght_33866.html

[Welsh Wizard]

Haha! For once I am ahead of the game, having sprayed the toms last week with Bordeaux mix. It's the one gardening job I dislike doing but I think it necessary if one wants to grow outdoor toms in a village full of potato farmers....

[Glutton4...]

I got one in north Essex too!

[Bramble_killer]

It feels like I'll get one for here tomorrow

out with the sprayer for bordeaux. I'd like to stop using it but I actually want to EAT the crops I'm growing.

edit: just had a look and we had a near miss one day yesterday. but it wasn't emailed to me? weird

[Alison]

I got a full one, first this year but the weather doesn't feel right for it as the pressure has properly dropped since the weekend so am hoping it'll be OK. I don't spray as it's pretty nasty stuff which I don't want to contaminate the soil with so it's always a bit of a fingers crossed thiing. Lost one set of toms to it last year but the others and the spuds were OK as were the toms at home in the greenhouse. As I said, fingers crossed from now on this year.

[Glutton4...]

Fingers crossed here too - never had it myself - but then, this is only my second year, really!

[Bramble_killer]

just got a full smith warning for all the postcode areas I'm watching

[taff]

me too

[HotStuff]

I got a "near miss" today.

[elizajay]

I got a full smith warning and I planted my spuds late

[FionaH]

Same here, now what do we do?

[BigShot]

GM?

Thanks for the thread teakdesk. I had forgotten to sign up for blightwatch and I've done so now. I should start getting the updates tomorrow by the sound of things.
Cheers for the reminder.

eliza - I've been a bit of a late starter on the spuds too. I'm glad I picked S�rpo Mira as my maincrop as it looks like I'll really need it now - some of my small samples that I'm growing a few plants of just because I can (salad blue, pink fir apple and golden wonder) are a bit of a worry though. I don't really like the idea of using copper on the plot so I'm trying to find out the details of something I read recently about a compost tea of some sort that had comparable results to the nastier treatments. Not having much luck though.

Anyone used organic controls with any success?