After reading a few articles on Late Blight coming to the Northeast I found my potatoe crop ravaged by it. My daughter and I salvages the potatoes from the plants that seemed unaffected, but tonight I went out to start cleaning the spuds we pulled only to find that the fungus was on several of the tubers and when I began removing them from the lot, they burst open into a mass of oozing gelatin, dripping onto the others in the pile. Trying to be gentle and sift slowly through caused others that were infected to rupture. As a result, our entire potato harvest is a loss this year. I can’t trust any of the remaining ones not be diseased.
Here are further articles discussing the infection affecting so many this year:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/07/05/Late-blight-hits-early-in-Northeast/UPI-89851246769782/