Thread: How do you earth up your potatoes?
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Old 29-08-2008, 01:07 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default How do you earth up your potatoes?
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Admittedly, I
can't see how you'd do it mechanically, but this was being done
manually by land army girls wanting maximum cropping in wartime.

Chris
Er, well it was being done by outside locations staff for a bunch of
actresses playing land army girls and i expect you had to be able to SEE
the potatoes to get the effect of the genuine countryside (or so the
producer thought)
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