Re: Odd reference to potatoes
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- Subject: Re: Odd reference to potatoes
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:02:09 -0500
Well, Bill, that's a phrase I've read many a time. I've grown
potatoes, too, in the past. I've never noticed any magical
properties there, as a potato bed will get weeds growing in it. The
only thing I've thought is that potato beds tend to get very well
turned over in the process of hilling for them and then digging out
the tubers and, perhaps, it is this that "cleans" the bed of weeds
by disturbing the soil sufficiently to discourage most of them and
bury the others.
Rather think it's really one of those old wives tales of
gardening...another gardening myth, tho'...
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Blee811@aol.com
> Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 12:33 AM
>
> 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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