Irish Potato Blight Reaches our Shore
But it’s affecting tomatoes this time – Almost everyone in the US has some Irish blood, because due to the potato famine in the 19th century, thousands of Irish immigrated here. When Anne Strieber analyzed the hundreds of thousands of letters from experiencers that she read, she found that a large proportion of writers had Irish surnames. Now the potato blight has reached our shores and is affecting tomato plants.
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