potato blight

When potato blight hit the island in 1845, much of the rural population was left without food.

It's not exactly the potato blight, but fresh tomatoes are suddenly in short supply.

In 1845, Ireland was hit by a potato blight.

Is the lesson of the potato blight grown so dim?

Resting spores create the phenomenon known as late potato blight.

Unfortunately from 1845 potato blight affected the activity and then completely stopped it.

Cavan to be affected by the potato blight in the autumn of 1845.

The period of the potato blight in Ireland from 1845-51 was full of political confrontation.

Potato blight never spreads because the soil is clean and free of spores each spring.

The potato blight struck again the following year.

Corbett Farms say that this year has shown the value of spraying to prevent potato blight.

The wind-borne Potato blight fungus spread throughout the country In 1845-1847.

Garden plots were hit by potato blight.

He said the tree, which has the same fungal disease that caused potato blight in Ireland, was feeling better and may survive for decades.

Kerr's Pinks grow with many tubers and can catch potato blight very easily.

The potato blight arrived in Ireland in 1844 and by 1846 some seventy-five percent of the crops were lost.

They say they used to give pauper children soup to change to protestants in the time of the potato blight.

The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine."

This was to have disastrous effects when, in the period 1847-49 potato blight struck, making much of the potatoes grown inedible.

The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight.

When potato blight struck in 1847-48, the hardships were too much for many who felt the need to find greener pastures elsewhere.

The resulting teas are supposed to cure everything from powdery mildew to potato blight.

When the potato blight ruined the potatoes they grew for themselves and their families, they starved."

And with a potato blight rotting the spuds in the field-" He shrugged.

Some areas of Cavan were hard hit by the Great Famine potato blight between 1845-49.