Saturday became the hottest day of the year with the temperature reaching 31.3°C or 88.3°F.
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We decided it was a bit too hot to do any serious allotmenting and spent a day sorting out our harvest picked on Friday.
However, we couldn't put off visiting the plot on Sunday which was another hot day. The forecast is that the high temperature might well be with us through to next weekend. I didn't want to leave the plot greenhouse tomatoes another day without giving them a drink.
As soon as I started filling up the watering can, I noticed the brown tell-tale signs of blight on some of the leaves of our early Casablanca potatoes.
A quick check around our other potato varieties and they all seemed to be clear of blight at the moment. It's a disease that can spread very quickly though, so we will need to keep a careful watch. It seems that as soon as we get a couple of humid nights blight strikes. It's not that we can do much about blight other than removing any diseased leaves and hope the potatoes under the soil remain unaffected. On our next visit, we'll start lifting some of the early potatoes and then we will find out if the potatoes have been affected.
It's not our only potato problem. It's been a reasonably wet start to July with around average rainfall for the entire month in the first couple of weeks of the month.
These Charlotte potatoes look as though they've done all the growing they are going to do. At first glance, they look as though they have run out of water and need a good drink. I'll probably lift one root to see if there are any decent potatoes under the haulms. I'm guessing any potatoes are going to be small.
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