The same poor, wet weather that has curtailed our rock climbing in the Adirondacks, has also led to "late blight" in our potato fields. This is the same infestation that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the mid-1850s. Late blight has ruined almost all Northeastern potato crops, however about a month ago, on the advice of the Cornell ag school, we cut off all the potato tops which has saved the crop. So, yesterday I turned in my gore-tex tops and bottoms for my farm coveralls, as we harvested over 5000 pounds of red, blue, and yellow potatoes.
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