Potatoes!

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Please somebody help me with my potatoes! A week ago it looked like they’d got scorched, I thought maybe it was because I hadn’t watered the raised bed in warm weather. Some new leaves seemed to be growing, but now half of the plants seem to also have been eaten. Photos attached

Is it potato blight for the brown leaves? The picture isn’t clear when I zoom in to try to see better.

Slugs and snails having a bumper feast? I can’t kill the blooming things, a couple of spuds must have tumbled out of the compost as I have noticed several large potato plants today.

My potatoes got frosted and the leaves have black areas - not brown like yours so yours is probably sun scorch?? Possibly blight but it's early in the season for that.
I wonder if you have voles. - They can be little devils for eating stuff though they don't eat my potatoes. Nor do the mice. If it was slugs I would expect you to have seen some around as that is a hell of a lot of potato leaf to eat.
Rabbits??
I cut the bottoms off plastic milk containers and put them over plants with a cane through the hole at the top to keep them in place - pile soil up around the bottom. Keeps the voles and mice off.

Every time the foliage shows, you need to cover it all up with more soil!

This is to get more potatoes rather than for the health of the plant

I was about to start earthing them up when the leaves got scorched so then I felt like I needed to wait until there was some happy new growth- then they have seemingly been munched! I am thinking I will put some fertiliser on and earth them up slightly, then maybe cover them i a net or something to try and stop any larger pests? I am not holding out much hope!

If it was slugs and snails you might see slime on the leaves or the soil. Perhaps check the boards on the edges of the beds where it's covered by the long grass. That would be where any molluscs are hiding out during the day.

Oh dear, it does look a bit like blight and snails. A perfect potato storm!

What variety are they, might give a clue. Could you dig up one of the smaller plants and have a look at the potatoes? Might give a clue.

It looks to me like frost damage, then pigeon damage. I don't know if wood pigeons eat potato leaves but my brassicas look like that if the pigeons get to them. They'll have a try of pretty much anything in my garden.