Suffolk gardens confirm late blight disease
Photo credit: Meg McGrath | Late blight causes lesions along the stems of tomato plants.
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Farmers and gardeners: Late blight has been confirmed in Suffolk County, so watch your potatoes.
The disease, a factor in the Irish famine in the 1840s, has been found in at least six locations on Long Island -- from Riverhead to Mattituck on the North Fork, and in Bridgehampton on the South Fork, according to Meg McGrath, a plant pathologist at Cornell University's extension center in Riverhead.
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