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I'm in a quandary over what to do about potato blight (Phytophthora infestans), a fungal infection that causes foliage to develop dark patches and can result in the rotting of the tubers. We didn't seem to suffer from it at all on my last plot

of frost will have passed in most parts of the country. Some well-rotted manure or compost worked into the bed will give plants a boost, since they are hungry feeders. (In autumn I usually make a bean trench - filling it with kitchen peelings and manure