On 15/12/15 14:41, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:

Potatoes would be a pernicious weed if they were not edible!
Not quite in the league of horseradish but not so far off.

Not in Cambridge, they wouldn't be. Few are deep enough to survive
even an average winter, and blight is ubiquitous.

I wish someone would tell mine that: some have new 9" shoots!

If I shout at them unkindly (cf Price Charles), will
they take the hint and withdraw?