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Having had potato blight last year, can anybody give me names of 2nd earlies and main crop potatoes which are proven blight resistant. Thank you.
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Wouldn't swear to it but I think 2nd early Charlotte are
The best known blight resistant varieties are Sarpo Mira and Sarpo Axona. I think Blue Danube (from the same Sarpo family) may be too.
Thank you very much, KEF,Edd, and Bob the Gardener, I am off to the garden centre tomorrow and will look for the recommended varieties.
Charlotte are not exactly blight resistant, but although the tops may get blighted and wither, the potatoes themselves (in my experience) are always perfectly OK. I leave them in the ground, sometimes long after the tops have withered completely, and they're always fine.
Anything you can do to avoid or delay blight is still worth doing, as the potatoes won't grow much once the tops die back.
Sarpo mira. I have seen these untouched by blight, when another variety in the next row has been decimated.
I've never had blight with Charlotte and I leave them in the ground for storage like Green Magpie.
Thank you all so much, the garden centre said Romano and Orla. have any of you heard of them?.
I haven't, but then in France the varieties are often different. I googled them though and there is quite a lot of info.
thanks for that, I think I will try them, let you know at the end of the season re crop and any diseases.