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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Fruit and Vegetables => Topic started by: gertrude on July 27, 2021, 02:45:51 PM

Title: sad potatoes
Post by: gertrude on July 27, 2021, 02:45:51 PM

whats wrong with these potatoes. they are  grown in huge plastic tubs by my son in the UK

Title: Re: sad potatoes
Post by: Umbrian on July 28, 2021, 07:32:54 AM

Oh dear! Wouldn't have recognised them if you hadn't said...... climate change stress🙄

Title: Re: sad potatoes
Post by: Charithea on July 28, 2021, 09:42:28 AM

As Umbrian said,  Oh dear.  The potato plants don't look very healthy.  I  am posting a photo of my nephew's Marrow.  It is as long as the width of his kitchen window.  For a non gardener he is doing well.  It will be used in the autumn to make 'kolokopites'.  Semi sweet pasties.