POTATOES GROWN FROM PEEL
An enthusiastic Dunedin amateur gardener has forwarded the following to the Otago Daily Times: "In consequence of a conversation with my next-door neighbour last August about the Irish potato famine and the request to English people to save all peelings and send them to Ireland for planting, I took a piece of peel about the : size of a shilling with a good eye on it, limed the wound, and planted it in soil mixed with a little leaf mould. The peel was planted on August 25 of last year and the potatoes were dug 011 January 26. Here they are, 2!b weight and no cost. I think they are of the Arran Chief variety."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 270, 12 February 1941, Page 6
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118POTATOES GROWN FROM PEEL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 270, 12 February 1941, Page 6
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