Blight? Already?

So today when I went to the plot I noticed that some of the rogue potatoes growing had black leaves. Tell tale signs of blight. :(

(Apologies for the blurry pictures.)

Needless to say, they got pulled immediately. Others in the bags seem to be OK though. I think it's because it's been so dry recently. We've had no rain for nearly a month which seems to have let the blight spores dry and get blown around.

And for more bad news, the Courgettes that I planted out two days ago are already suffering the effects of slugs.

On a more positive note though, the sweetcorn went out today.

But this should produce an interesting grow bed. Mr Mousie had been burying some of my courgette seeds in a cache. One of which seems to have been put in one of the sweetcorn pots and has sprouted. So it looks like we might have a rogue courgette growing in the middle of the sweetcorn bed. No big deal. It's similar to the infamous "three sisters" growing method.

Although the strawberries are going great guns, the Wife is starting out in another Empire. Last year she grew Cape Gooseberries. Well she kept some seeds from them just to see if they'd germinate. Yeah, they did. And now she has a "few" seedlings.

So I guess we're going to have to find a planting location for these once they grow up too.