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Blue danube potatoes

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From: nmm...@wheeler.UUCP (Nick Maclaren)
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Subject: Blue danube potatoes
Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 17:58:44 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Nick Maclaren - Sun, 8 May 2022 17:58 UTC

Oh dear. I tried them last year, and they grew well, cropped well,
and (subject to provisos below) made good baked potatoes.

But their skins are too tough to mash them unpeeled, a lot of them
had brown areas inside, and they were absolute b*gg*rs to harvest.
I have just been digging up a lot of large ones I missed (yes, a LOT).
The reason is their skin colour is almost exactly the same as my
soil.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.