From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2023-06-20, songbird wrote:   
   > Dan Purgert wrote:   
   >> Checking on my potato plants this morning, it seems they might've been   
   >> in the early stages of some kind of infection.  Some of the leaves are   
   >> starting to have little black spots all over.   
   >>   
   >> Pruned all this infected(?) growth back ... hopefully that helps, and it   
   >> doesn't turn out that the severity of the pruning stresses / weakens the   
   >> plants further, there's still months to go before they're supposed to be   
   >> "ready" :(   
   >>   
   >> Any ideas if I might have a chance to salvage the plants?   
   >   
   >   i have no idea about potatoes other than some vague   
   > knowledge.   
   >   
   >   have you grown potatoes in that same space before?   
   > do you rotate your plantings to avoid diseases being   
   > able to persist?   
      
   No, brand new plot.  First season growing in it.   
   >   
   >   has it been hot and dry or wet and cool or ?   
      
   mostly hot and dry. Though we did (finally) get rain last week, after a   
   few days of rather awful air conditions thanks to the canadian   
   wildfires.   
      
   Wondering a little bit if that didn't stress the plants out.  Time will   
   tell if the pruning was enough to save the plants ...   
      
   >   
   >   did you apply compost or use some other amendments   
   > or fertilizers or sprays?   
      
   Just some slow-release general fertilizer to mix in with the topsoil /   
   native soil in that plot.  I forget the exact N-P-K mix though.   
   >   
   >   it has been rather dry here, if i'd not been able to   
   > water i'd not have much of a garden at all right now.   
      
   Same.   
      
      
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