Odd reference to potatoes
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Odd reference to potatoes
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:33:23 EST
On Victory Garden tonight, Adrian Bloom toured a fabulous, immense Scottish
garden with its owner. They came to one bed that had a nice boxwood border
around it and Adrian was surprised that the bed was full of potato plants.
The owner said that she had a real problem with weeds in that bed last year
and so planted potatoes only this year to "clean the bed".
Does anyone know about some magical property of potatoes for cleaning up a
bed? Or did she perhaps mean that she was letting it be useful (producing
potatoes) until she had a chance to clean out the last of the weeds? (This is
not what it sounded like she meant.)
Bill Lee
Cincinnati
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