Late blight is a fungus that usually occurs at the end of the growing season. It is the same fungus that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1850′s. Once your plants get it they are goners, there are no treatments to control this disease in infected plants. That makes the application of protectants paramount.
If you want to start seedlings yet this year, it’s time to do it. If you want to start lettuce or onions or peas, you now have the choice of starting them indoors or directly sowing these cold hearty vegetables.
Protect your Harvest
by Steve Bogash · June 27, 2009
Late blight is a fungus that usually occurs at the end of the growing season. It is the same fungus that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1850′s. Once your plants get it they are goners, there are no treatments to control this disease in infected plants. That makes the application of protectants paramount.