If your gonna grow spuds plant QUEENS, they are early spuds with nice flavour.
And in Late march plant a few Kerr's Pinks, excellant spuds brilliant when boiled. Now spuds are very prone to blight and need to be sprayed with a copper based spray every 10 days depending on weather. Blight can be found on the end of leaves going yellow, where it continues to spread to the stems, then down the stem and into the spud. Causing the plant to go black and the spud to rot.
If there is a tinge of yellow on the leaf, this can't be cured but by spraying it can stop the spread. However some peo