potatoes, blight, harvesting etc

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I put charlottes and blue danube in this spring. Charlottes are up and were amazing, many large potatoes, too many, so I have dehydrated most, now sorted for winter. I have put some smaller ones in a cool dark shed and they will be good for a couple more weeks to eat fresh. Nicola freebies were grown in bags, they were unexpected from t and m, they also were very good indeed, in fact I will probably consider potatoes in bags next year again

I went to the allotment at 6 this morning and had my usual look around, to see large brown splodges starting to appear on my blue danube haulms. Such a shame as I thought they were blight resistant. Anyway def the start of blight, after a very muggy few days in this part of the uk. I cut all the haulm off and was happy to see that the blight was patchy, however it would have rapidly spread. All haulm now chopped up and in my hotbin. I will leave the tubers in the ground for 2 weeks and then lift to dry a few hours and store in paper sacks. Disappointing though as I was set to start harvest in august but am curious about the size of the crop

Next years plan is to grow half the number of charlotte at the allotment plus a few kestrel for storage and first earlies at home in bags. I am done with early maincrop, not worth the blight risk