Early Blight on Potato Leaf?

[AlittleSalt]

I'm not positive what this is on my potato plants? Is it Early Blight?

If so, should I pull and burn them or ???

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I'm not positive what this is on my potato plants? Is it Early Blight?

If so, should I pull and burn them or ???

Salt cut everything off that has it on it and get ride of it but leave the plants.
You might have to do this a few times but it should go away.
I have no idea what it is.
I some some sort of speck on one of mine and this is what I did before it got started.

Worth

[AlittleSalt]

Thanks Worth. I'll cut them off in the morning. I'd do it now but I just saw a mosquito flying by with a calf in its grasp

[MissS]

This is not good.

[Hellmanns]

It's alternaria, Salt. Nuke it!

[AlittleSalt]

Hellmanns, alternaria = https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...ia+on+potatoes

I was wondering why they were not growing as tall and thick as they should be...

New potatoes sell for around $3 a pound here. I'll just buy some.

MissS, I'm agreeing.

Worth, I braved the mosquitos and sprayed bug nuke-a-cide on everything. There are a whole lot of holes on the potato leaves now that were not there this morning and more plants with yellowing spotted leaves. They will be gone in the morning. Nothing else in the garden has this problem including the Wando peas planted a foot behind them.

Some new potatoes aren't worth propagating a disease.

[Worth1]

I dont blame you for getting rid of them.

Worth

[AlittleSalt]

They're out of the ground now, and this picture says it all...

[Worth1]

Do you think this was brought in from the saved store potatoes or something that blew in from the wind?
Our spring has been a rather inviting climate for this sort of thing this year.

Worth

[AlittleSalt]

What I am thinking is that because I planted potatoes that I dug up last May/June and sat in a basket for over a half year - they must have been weak to fighting disease? Like I wrote above, nothing else in the garden is showing any signs of problems. Everything else was planted by seed.

That's just my guess.

[Worth1]

Salt I have no idea to be honest I posted here with an answer hoping someone else would com e in and say something of value as it sat for some time unanswered but with plenty of views.
I almost put up some hog wash answer just so someone would come in and correct me.
But if I would have done that I would have sent you a PM letting you know it was a hog wash answer.

Doing some potato looking the other day I read that there are only a few places in the US that seed potatoes are allowed to be grown and sold.
Then there are the bugs that can carry stuff in too.

I am going to keep a close eye out on the potatoes I have growing.
Worth

[AlittleSalt]

Worth, I appreciate your reply. I knew this thread could a difficult one to answer. I just got in from digging up the remaining few potatoes - 8 of them. Five looked normal, two looked like the one in the picture and one had holes all over it.

They were seed potatoes that were bought in February 2015. I planted/grew them and dug them up in either late May or early June. Post #10 explains the rest.

I wish I never planted them, but you live and learn.