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Old 15-12-2015, 06:58 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Tom Gardner 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!


So far, this winter has been INCREDIBLY mild in the south - tell
me what happens to them between now and next May.


We just had the first frost of the winter, two nights ago; so light it
was gone by the time we finished breakfast.

Janet.