POTATO FARMERS WATCH FOR LATE BLIGHT
Friday, August 21st, 2009 -- 11:34 AM
A notorious plant disease that destroyed the Irish potato crop decades ago has been found in two commercial potato fields in Wisconsin.'late blight,' a fungus, has been confirmed in potato fields in Columbia and Portage counties.
Gardeners are encouraged to destroy any tomato plants that show signs of the late blight. It usually starts in a plant's leaves. Brown, spreading lesions appear and attack the rest of the plant.
Infected plant put more spores into the air, which threatens to infect more plants.
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