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Alan Holmes see sig for reply address wrote:

"Dwayne" wrote in message
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Hi Ron. I am in USDA Zone 5 in the US and the gardeners here plant
potatoes
on Good Friday. I don't think that has anything to do with how well the
potatoes will come out, just an easy way to remember when to stick them in
the ground. Have fun. Dwayne

Good Friday varies from year to year so this is not a good guide!

In some sects, it is fixed. A brief trawl indicates that the
Aristean calendar fixes it on August 17th, which isn't a lot of help,
but I believe that at least one sect has fixed it somewhere in spring.

Using it as a date for planting potatoes is probably not generally
regarded as a sufficient reason for conversion ....


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