Perhaps I come from a sheltered background, but I do like this site. It had never even occured to me that others didn't actually earth up potatoes.

I've always done it to stop greening, and to make it easier when digging up, but now I have a whole load of other reasons for doing so, cheers.

As a Jamie Oliver fan, I would like to point out that in his first series Naked Chef (I don't count the bit part he played alongside ruth and rose)he did keep herbs on his windowsill!!(a gardener in the making me thinks), which he grew himself.

He may well annoy a lot of people but I still like him, he's a decent human being that genuinely cares about many issues, but more importantly is prepared to stand up and be counted even when it might affect his pay cheque!