First early potatoes If you're working with first ... I now only grow first earlies because the risk of blight is so great. Potato blight is a fungal disease that rots first the haulms and then ...

As fungicide products become harder to come by and resistance strains continue to cause problems in potatoes guidelines need to be adhered to.

Scotland's History Land and Votes Potato blight ruins Scottish crops The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced ... Catholics, who by the early 18th century made up around 80% of the population, owned only 5% of Irish land.