"Anne Welsh Jackson" wrote in message
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soup wrote:

The "old way" to have new potatoes on the table at christmas
was to harvest potatoes as per usual, select the ones you wanted
to keep, and place them in a (biscuit?) tin, in peat - and bury the tin
in the garden.

No doubt there's some new-fangled way of doing it, but will it
be any better...?

its called Tesco ;-)