Late blight dos, don’ts and Dohs!

Saranac Laker Mary Thill has a great blog post over at Adirondack Almanack, telling the story of a well-meaning woman who traveled through the region with a load of late blight-infected tomatoes in her car.

The opinion was, yes, the plant did indeed have late blight, and now it had traveled through Lake Placid, home to Cornell University’s Uihlein Potato Research Station, which provides seed stock for much of the state.

This is nasty stuff, spread easily by wind-born fungal spores.

If you have questions or worries about late blight, do some quick research before you act: Check out this information page on NCPR’s website.