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sad potatoes

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gertrude

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sad potatoes
« 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
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Pete and Jan retired to le Marche, Italy 20 years ago for a quiet,  sunny life.  Gardening here was a challenge, but we now have a wonderful garden, with an eclectric selection of plants,  including many wild  flowers and orchids of which we are found of.

Umbrian

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Re: sad potatoes
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2021, 07:32:54 AM »
Oh dear! Wouldn't have recognised them if you hadn't said...... climate change stress🙄
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MGS member living and gardening in Umbria, Italy for past 19 years. Recently moved from my original house and now planning and planting a new small garden.
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Charithea

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Re: sad potatoes
« Reply #2 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.
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I garden in Cyprus, in a flat old farming field, alt. approx. 30 m asl.
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