Re: Potato Diseases



Julianne Wiley wrote:

> As you may remember, I posted before that my bee-U-ti-ful potatoes seem to
> be succumbing to one of those bacterial wilts (fusarium?
>  verticillium?) ---- or maybe too much heat----- or too much soggy water
> retention in the half-rotted leaves I'm using to hill them up with, ----or
> God knows what.  I'm going to stop watering and fertilizing them, and hill
> them up with dirt rather than half-finished leaf compost.

i too had several potato plants succumb to wilting...don't know whether it is
coincidental or causal, but since i've decreased the amount of leaves i use to
hill, keeping it *all* off the growing leaves, my remaining plants are, so far,
doing well.

katie rose
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