I Found Early Blight On My Potatoes — Here's What I'm Doing About It

Early blight (Alternaria solani) showed up in our potato patch this year — both in the raised beds and the in-ground rows. In this video, I walk you through exactly what it looks like, what caused it in our garden, and the organic-leaning steps we're taking right now to slow the spread and save what's left of the harvest. Plus, what we're changing for next season so this doesn't happen again. 💬 Got blight in your garden? Drop a comment — I read every one. Tell me what you're growing and what you're dealing with this season. Captain Jacks Copper Fungicide https://amzn.to/48LHwfZ Captain Jacks Insecticide https://amzn.to/4tVrXe9 🛠️ GARDEN SHOPPING LIST You can find all the parts, tools, and garden beds used in our videos right here: 🛒 Amazon Storefront: https://amzn.to/4aoyGog 🛒 Lowe’s Favorites: https://shoplowes.me/3Jp5cgN (As an Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL 👕 Merchandise & More: https://theramblinggardeners.com/shop ☕ Buy us a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theramblinggardeners ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱FOLLOW THE RAMBLING GARDENERS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theramblinggardeners/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/theramblinggardeners/ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheGGLLC TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theramblinggardene 🌿 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro & the problem 0:56 What blight is 1:38 Why our plants got hit 2:41 How to identify blight 3:24 Raised bed vs. in-ground 4:17 Prevention: compost & varieties 5:28 Daily scouting 6:12 Mulching & hilling 6:38 Watering technique 7:01 Pruning infected leaves 7:37 Copper fungicide 8:26 Sanitizing tools 8:52 Airflow & spacing 9:03 Crop rotation 9:43 Wrap up #earlyblight #potatogrowing #organicgardening #vegetablegarden #homestead #gardenproblems #blighttreatment #raisedbedgardening