A WRINKLE IN GROWING POTATOES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1651, 16 December 1916, Page 4

A WRINKLE IN GROWING POTATOES.

A housewife who presides over a modest flat was consigning a lot of obi polaloes to the ash box, when a visilor, with a mild remonstrance, bade her desist, says the Chronicle. Then she told’her of a plan devised by a British gardener, by which these old tubers can be made to do good service. She made the housewife pick out all those having a moderately sound appearance, the fact that they were krinkled did not matter. Then she was told to place them on the shelf of some quite dark place, a cupboard or a cellar, and just leave them alone. The potatoes were not to touch one another. “Then,” said the friend, “forget all about them for two or three months. At the end of this time go and have a look, and you will be astonished at what has happened. All the old tubers will be simply covered with nice new tubers about as big as wahints. Pick these off and cook them (they will not need any peeling), and you will think it is quite the nicest dish you ever had. Even now there is no need to throw the old potatoes away, for they will go on budding off the new tubers for a long time until there is nothing left of them except a crumpled skin.”