Thank you for this video! It came just at the right time! As a newerish gardener, I noticed some spots but didn’t think much about it considering we have had so much hot weather. Now that I know this I’m going out today and getting on it! So much to learn when it comes to homesteading. Super overwhelming at times, especially with young kids, but I love the challenge and the learning.
Just sprayed my tomatoes last week. I fight blight every year! So far this year I have been able to keep it under control so far -- I switched to raised beds last year.
This has been a bad year for blight most places. I made a mistake with my tomato seedlings while they were still indoors (left for vacation and forgot to turn the grow light timer on). I ended up replacing with seedlings bought from a couple reputable greenhouses. I'll never do that again. I was able to save my healthy homegrown seedlings, but the bought ones all developed early blight (crammed into flats + overhead watering = impossible to avoid blight). I tried everything, but that blight spread to my own seedlings and my potatoes. I was so upset. We still got a good crop of new potatoes, but now I'm going to have to avoid that whole area next year.
Like other comments, I thought my plants were stressed due to odd weather. We’ve had cold, lots of rain, and also heat in triple digits. I’ve tried potatoes several times but haven’t gotten the knack of it yet.
I had blight on my tomatoes that were in containers so I was lucky but I have been spraying copper all over my garden . The down side is this year July was really rainy in VT and I would spray the copper and the next day it would be rinsed off. I have only lost two plants but hopefully it will be better next yesr.
😃🤠Wow girrrrrllll you are so amazing!!! You are such a wealth of information, wish we could grow all that you do and have the live stock!! We are working towards that though!! 🙏❤❤❤ Thank you so much for sharing all that you have, praying for blessing for your family & garden!! 😍💞
I know from having a moldy house then a mold sickness in myself caught from the mold in the house that mold spores are something you don’t play around with. Very bad news. But is blight less of a risk with container grown potatoes or more of a risk? I love how your spray pump sounds like a gobbler!
I developed sinus issues thinking it’s some sort of root canal that I needed. But nope I have mold in my house. It’s nasty stuff fir sure. Hope you’re able to heal up from your health issues.
I think I misconstrued the idea that your potatoes are ready to harvest when your leaves, the greenery, start to die back, so I think I have the same problem - blight in my potatoes. Unfortunately, they're the fingerling and the red but I hope I didn't lose all of them just because I didn't know the difference. Thanks for showing this gardening event, Melissa becuz this is my first time growing potatoes (Michigan).
if you spray your plants after you cut out the already infected plants don't forget to desinfect your tools and hands, otherwise you may carry the spores to another spot in your garden
It's a good idea to look up some close-up images of blight on gardening websites and Google images, really acquaint yourself with the difference. I got caught out by blight with my first time growing potatoes too!
Oh good question. I’m guessing if the plant is just dying back naturally you’d see some yellowing of the leaves from the base of the plant rather than random brown spots on the leaves. I guess this is why getting out into the garden daily is important so you don’t miss those transitions when plants are deprived of nutrients or water vs. disease vs. naturally dying back.
@@MFaith777 It’s heartbreaking to know you’ve done so much work already and to have missed something like that. Moving forward you will just be wiser for it. Trust me, I’ve had my fair share of mishaps and oversights and silly things like over watering or under watering plants and killing them right at harvest time or peak bloom time. It happens to the best of us and all we can do is see it as a learning opportunity . Because of all my ups and downs, I just tell everyone everything I’m planting is a test. That way I don’t feel so bad when something doesn’t go accordingly. Haha!
I will cry if I get blight. I am trying to develop two landrace potatoes, one diploid and one tetraploid and if the plants die before getting to seed it would be devastating.
Speaking of potatoes here in Montana it's been 100 degrees for weeks. It killed the tops of my potatoes. I'm only gonna get baby potatoes but how long can I leave them in the dirt?
We had so much heat humid and rain this year inwas constantly putting down newspapers cardboard to help with splash back under tomatoes and pruned all the time help wkth air flow still have blight good news tomatoes still producing but not as good as k oms.and she had same.seed.starts from me had be my.soil. grr so crazy I treat and treat and keep pulling. Just never fully got rid of it. But the tomatoes still coming so I keep trying manage first time even putting plants here. Frustrating it was there nkrhkng been there before
New to growing potatoes . 2 of my containers have blight really bad and it's harvest time for them. Are the potatoes still ok to eat ? They've had the brown spots on the leaf for 6 weeks at least ..I thought it was just bugs
So Melissa, what would you plant in that area where the potatoes were pulled? Do you leave it fallow, or can there be some amending? I have possible early blight, in my garden of 10X10 and I like you am hitting it head on as it comes. My property is less than 3,000 sq ft total, so I don't have many choices of moving crops. Is there plants I can rotate?
Don't know if this is any use to you, but as I live in Scotland blight is really very common in potatoes here. So I decided to grow my potatoes in large pots. That way, I'm in charge of drainage, soil composition, and can take care to mulch to stop 'splashing' of spores that might exist on soil surface. Stand pots of potatoes among other plants, so they are separated from each other by broad beans, peas, generally things that climb up above the potatoes and get the sun on their leaves okay. If, by some misfortune, blight 'does' appear in one of the pots, the plant can be hoicked out, the soil can be dumped off in another part of the garden where it won't be a threat, and the pot thoroughly cleaned before it's planted up with more potatoes. There is an expert pot-culture potato grower on UA-cam, his channel called 'Simply gardening.' He will give you an idea on what sort of soil you should be putting in a pot for optimum potato plant growth (as it differs from planting in open ground). I have been growing potatoes in pots for about 3 years now, and much more successfully than I ever did in the ground. In fact, the yield can be so high, the potatoes can split the pots, so it's a good idea to dig down and remove a few potatoes if you see the pots get misshapen.
Blight does not reside in the soil so the area can be safely replanted year after year. Blight is an airborne disease and it only thrives on living tissue. Hope this helps as there is so much misinformation and scaremongering about blight!
Huw Richards says to cut down the affected plants to the ground (cut off stem And leaves) but to leave the potatoes in the ground for two weeks. What are your thoughts on this instead of pulling them up right away?
Once the leaves are all gone the potato won't grow any bigger so I don't see any point in waiting. In the fall with healthy crops I'll leave them in ground to over winter but in summer there's more insect activity and the soil is too hot to store them long term without the plant feeding them in my experience.
I can't keep voles out of my garden, especially in my potato beds. We dug up our entire garden to put hardware cloth underneath and around edges and they still get in. I then planted my potatoes in 100 gal fabric pots and they got into them. They even climbed my 3 ft tall raised potato bed (lined with hardware cloth) and ate the potatoes, nowhere is sacred. I'm at a loss how to fend off these devastating little creatures. If you could add a segment into one of your vids about this I would be greatly appreciative.🙏
Put 5 gallon bucket mouse traps around. The best is made in USA. Lookup Shawn Woods or just search “best mouse trap” on UA-cam and his video about it is at the top. You need to knock down the population.
My first year planting potatoes in my raised beds was a huge success. The followig two years my potatoes had pocks all over them and now I know it is early blight. What should I plant in the potato bed this year? Should I plant stringbeans or kale in that bed and grow potatoes in large containers instead?
I tried containing the blight on my tomatoes but it continued to spread. This is the first time this has happened to me. I have my soil covered with a weed fabric. Can I still plant something in this space next year? If I build a raised bed and add new compost will it help? Thanks, Michael PS Great channel.
First time potato grower here and my plants all began looking dead in July (I planted first of April). I harvested all of the potatoes and a few were rotten. I’m in growing zone 6a. I’m now wondering if the entire patch had blight. Thoughts? Should my potato plants have stayed healthy and green until the first frost?
Same here. I just thought if the plants died back it was time to harvest. Now I'm not sure. Mine were in 2 half barrel planters. I may just empty them out somewhere on my property away from the garden just in case and start fresh.
Why not get a colloidal silver generator to make your own, and then spray the colloidal silver on the potato leaves??? You can get rid of the blight easily that way. You just got to really spray the heck out of the leaves.
Morning or evening if sunny out (so leaves don't burn) doesn't really matter on a cloudy day. You don't want any rain within 24 hours at least after application
Something is seriously wrong with my potatoes this year, but there are so many different diseases that I don't know what it is. My variety is supposed to be blight-resistant. My sister noticed whiteflies on the leaves today - could that be the problem? The leaves are turning brown from the edges inward, then the whole plant yellows, weakens, and falls over.
Thank you for this video! It came just at the right time! As a newerish gardener, I noticed some spots but didn’t think much about it considering we have had so much hot weather. Now that I know this I’m going out today and getting on it! So much to learn when it comes to homesteading. Super overwhelming at times, especially with young kids, but I love the challenge and the learning.
So grateful for your channel 🙏💚
Just sprayed my tomatoes last week. I fight blight every year! So far this year I have been able to keep it under control so far -- I switched to raised beds last year.
Can we use hydrogen peroxide for blight control? What is sprayer mixture for 3% hydrogen peroxide per gallon of water?
Hello, learn something new all the time. Thanks for sharing. Have a great evening. Lisa @moneypit homestead
This has been a bad year for blight most places. I made a mistake with my tomato seedlings while they were still indoors (left for vacation and forgot to turn the grow light timer on). I ended up replacing with seedlings bought from a couple reputable greenhouses. I'll never do that again. I was able to save my healthy homegrown seedlings, but the bought ones all developed early blight (crammed into flats + overhead watering = impossible to avoid blight). I tried everything, but that blight spread to my own seedlings and my potatoes. I was so upset. We still got a good crop of new potatoes, but now I'm going to have to avoid that whole area next year.
Thank you for the info
Like other comments, I thought my plants were stressed due to odd weather. We’ve had cold, lots of rain, and also heat in triple digits. I’ve tried potatoes several times but haven’t gotten the knack of it yet.
I had blight on my tomatoes that were in containers so I was lucky but I have been spraying copper all over my garden . The down side is this year July was really rainy in VT and I would spray the copper and the next day it would be rinsed off. I have only lost two plants but hopefully it will be better next yesr.
Should you trim lower branches away from soil as you do for tomatoes? Would it help. Should you spray the soil too?
😃🤠Wow girrrrrllll you are so amazing!!! You are such a wealth of information, wish we could grow all that you do and have the live stock!! We are working towards that though!! 🙏❤❤❤ Thank you so much for sharing all that you have, praying for blessing for your family & garden!! 😍💞
We are all on our own journey! You got this!
I know from having a moldy house then a mold sickness in myself caught from the mold in the house that mold spores are something you don’t play around with. Very bad news.
But is blight less of a risk with container grown potatoes or more of a risk? I love how your spray pump sounds like a gobbler!
I developed sinus issues thinking it’s some sort of root canal that I needed. But nope I have mold in my house. It’s nasty stuff fir sure. Hope you’re able to heal up from your health issues.
Good morning Melissa 😊
I think I misconstrued the idea that your potatoes are ready to harvest when your leaves, the greenery, start to die back, so I think I have the same problem - blight in my potatoes. Unfortunately, they're the fingerling and the red but I hope I didn't lose all of them just because I didn't know the difference. Thanks for showing this gardening event, Melissa becuz this is my first time growing potatoes (Michigan).
if you spray your plants after you cut out the already infected plants don't forget to desinfect your tools and hands, otherwise you may carry the spores to another spot in your garden
You're not alone. I'm learning this also.
It's a good idea to look up some close-up images of blight on gardening websites and Google images, really acquaint yourself with the difference. I got caught out by blight with my first time growing potatoes too!
I have brown spots on my potato leaves but I thought it was just the plant dying out and getting ready to harvest?? How do you tell the difference?
Oh good question.
I’m guessing if the plant is just dying back naturally you’d see some yellowing of the leaves from the base of the plant rather than random brown spots on the leaves. I guess this is why getting out into the garden daily is important so you don’t miss those transitions when plants are deprived of nutrients or water vs. disease vs. naturally dying back.
@@zaria5785 I am out in my garden daily- I really wish I would’ve known this sooner! I totally thought it was natural die back. :(
@@MFaith777 It’s heartbreaking to know you’ve done so much work already and to have missed something like that. Moving forward you will just be wiser for it. Trust me, I’ve had my fair share of mishaps and oversights and silly things like over watering or under watering plants and killing them right at harvest time or peak bloom time. It happens to the best of us and all we can do is see it as a learning opportunity .
Because of all my ups and downs, I just tell everyone everything I’m planting is a test. That way I don’t feel so bad when something doesn’t go accordingly. Haha!
I thought my leaf damage was from the potato beetle, but I just realized I have blight. Thank you for this!
Glad it was helpful!
I will cry if I get blight. I am trying to develop two landrace potatoes, one diploid and one tetraploid and if the plants die before getting to seed it would be devastating.
Would burning the soil decrease the chance of blight in the future?
What if I get blight but I live where temps go down into single digits in Winter? Will it kill spores?
Speaking of potatoes here in Montana it's been 100 degrees for weeks. It killed the tops of my potatoes. I'm only gonna get baby potatoes but how long can I leave them in the dirt?
We had so much heat humid and rain this year inwas constantly putting down newspapers cardboard to help with splash back under tomatoes and pruned all the time help wkth air flow still have blight good news tomatoes still producing but not as good as k oms.and she had same.seed.starts from me had be my.soil. grr so crazy I treat and treat and keep pulling. Just never fully got rid of it. But the tomatoes still coming so I keep trying manage first time even putting plants here. Frustrating it was there nkrhkng been there before
New to growing potatoes . 2 of my containers have blight really bad and it's harvest time for them. Are the potatoes still ok to eat ? They've had the brown spots on the leaf for 6 weeks at least ..I thought it was just bugs
What is the copper solution you speak of?
So Melissa, what would you plant in that area where the potatoes were pulled? Do you leave it fallow, or can there be some amending? I have possible early blight, in my garden of 10X10 and I like you am hitting it head on as it comes. My property is less than 3,000 sq ft total, so I don't have many choices of moving crops. Is there plants I can rotate?
Don't know if this is any use to you, but as I live in Scotland blight is really very common in potatoes here. So I decided to grow my potatoes in large pots. That way, I'm in charge of drainage, soil composition, and can take care to mulch to stop 'splashing' of spores that might exist on soil surface.
Stand pots of potatoes among other plants, so they are separated from each other by broad beans, peas, generally things that climb up above the potatoes and get the sun on their leaves okay.
If, by some misfortune, blight 'does' appear in one of the pots, the plant can be hoicked out, the soil can be dumped off in another part of the garden where it won't be a threat, and the pot thoroughly cleaned before it's planted up with more potatoes.
There is an expert pot-culture potato grower on UA-cam, his channel called 'Simply gardening.' He will give you an idea on what sort of soil you should be putting in a pot for optimum potato plant growth (as it differs from planting in open ground).
I have been growing potatoes in pots for about 3 years now, and much more successfully than I ever did in the ground. In fact, the yield can be so high, the potatoes can split the pots, so it's a good idea to dig down and remove a few potatoes if you see the pots get misshapen.
@@debbiehenri345 Thank you. 😊
I would like to know what she is spraying....
Blight does not reside in the soil so the area can be safely replanted year after year. Blight is an airborne disease and it only thrives on living tissue.
Hope this helps as there is so much misinformation and scaremongering about blight!
Have this in cucumbers.
Huw Richards says to cut down the affected plants to the ground (cut off stem
And leaves) but to leave the potatoes in the ground for two weeks. What are your thoughts on this instead of pulling them up right away?
Once the leaves are all gone the potato won't grow any bigger so I don't see any point in waiting. In the fall with healthy crops I'll leave them in ground to over winter but in summer there's more insect activity and the soil is too hot to store them long term without the plant feeding them in my experience.
@@MelissaKNorris can you pull if you’ve just had rain or will the potatoes not be able to be hardened off if they’re muddy?
I can't keep voles out of my garden, especially in my potato beds. We dug up our entire garden to put hardware cloth underneath and around edges and they still get in. I then planted my potatoes in 100 gal fabric pots and they got into them. They even climbed my 3 ft tall raised potato bed (lined with hardware cloth) and ate the potatoes, nowhere is sacred. I'm at a loss how to fend off these devastating little creatures. If you could add a segment into one of your vids about this I would be greatly appreciative.🙏
Put 5 gallon bucket mouse traps around. The best is made in USA. Lookup Shawn Woods or just search “best mouse trap” on UA-cam and his video about it is at the top. You need to knock down the population.
I think my potatoes have blight! ☹️ I have them planted near my tomatoes and bell peppers. How likey is it to infect all my other plants?
My first year planting potatoes in my raised beds was a huge success. The followig two years my potatoes had pocks all over them and now I know it is early blight. What should I plant in the potato bed this year? Should I plant stringbeans or kale in that bed and grow potatoes in large containers instead?
Beans would be better because they'll help fix nitrogen back into the soil and repeated plantings of potatoes uses quite a bit of nitrogen.
Could this be why my potatoes didn't bloom this year? I plant Yukon Golds and only harvested small "baby" taters, no blossoms.
I tried containing the blight on my tomatoes but it continued to spread. This is the first time this has happened to me. I have my soil covered with a weed fabric. Can I still plant something in this space next year? If I build a raised bed and add new compost will it help? Thanks, Michael PS Great channel.
You can plant something not in the nightshade family, lettuce, brassicas, corn, root crops like beets, carrots, onions, etc.
First time potato grower here and my plants all began looking dead in July (I planted first of April). I harvested all of the potatoes and a few were rotten. I’m in growing zone 6a. I’m now wondering if the entire patch had blight. Thoughts? Should my potato plants have stayed healthy and green until the first frost?
Same here. I just thought if the plants died back it was time to harvest. Now I'm not sure. Mine were in 2 half barrel planters. I may just empty them out somewhere on my property away from the garden just in case and start fresh.
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Hellow Mam how are you, which chemical can I use for worms if potatoes are out?
Why not get a colloidal silver generator to make your own, and then spray the colloidal silver on the potato leaves??? You can get rid of the blight easily that way. You just got to really spray the heck out of the leaves.
Question…is there a best time of day to apply the copper solution?
Morning or evening if sunny out (so leaves don't burn) doesn't really matter on a cloudy day. You don't want any rain within 24 hours at least after application
Is blight from over head watering
You can get by one year with fewer potatoes, but you can't survive the next year with none.
Something is seriously wrong with my potatoes this year, but there are so many different diseases that I don't know what it is. My variety is supposed to be blight-resistant. My sister noticed whiteflies on the leaves today - could that be the problem? The leaves are turning brown from the edges inward, then the whole plant yellows, weakens, and falls over.
That's terrible! I'm sad for your situation.
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