"Noah Simoneaux" wrote in message
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I've noticed that many gardening books ignore potatoes, since they're so
cheap
to buy in the store it just doesn't pay to grow them at home. Just try
finding
some of the better varieties for home gardeners and taste them and the
store-bought potatoes will never taste the same for you. I've done that
with
tomatoes.

I think I'd ditch those gardening books as they are don't seem to know much
about a very important subject :-))

Having just looked through some of my books I notice that a lot of them that
I use most regularly emphasise the importance of growing even a few potatoes
in even a restricted garden space. These books all seem to stress the same
point which I find of most importance: - that it is impossible to buy a
decent potato in any supermarket and finding a good spud is a very hard task
if one doesn't have a garden.

I have found one shop which does supply good potatoes (in a very large
regional hunt) and they are still in the hessian (burlap) bag that comes
from the grower. It is a matter of digging in and getting ones hands dirty
in order to get the potatoes but they ARE good potoatoes (unlike anything
that comes in a plastic bag).