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    Bit of a puzzler, if anyone could explain??

    Turning over one of the raised beds this afternoon, (carrots last year and peas the year before) when out pops a potato. There have been absolutely no spuds grown in there for at least 2 years, and I dont think there were the year before either.
    How did it get there?
    Bob Leponge
    Life's disappointments are so much harder to take if you don't know any swear words.

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    It's been hiding Bob - or someone jealous of your veggies is trying to spook you!

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    • #3
      Do they self sow from tatie apples?
      From experience, it is nearly impossible to dig them all up, Bob - and they pop up for years after!
      Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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      • #4
        If you use homemade compost and it includes tattie peelings that could be it or squirels hiding food.

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        • #5
          potato fairy playing silly b*ggers?

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          • #6
            A few years back, either squirrels or rats dug up a pile of our JA's and stored them in a hole it'd dug on the nest plot!!
            I suppose a spud is much the same sort of size???
            "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

            Location....Normandy France

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            • #7
              I get 'volunteers' in strange places from home made compost. You only need an eye in a peeling which gets into a bit of compost that doesn't quite heat up enough and you're off!
              Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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              • #8
                Le Phantom Pomme de Terre Dibber of Olde Eance strikes again!!!!!
                When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by flowerofshona View Post
                  If you use homemade compost and it includes tattie peelings that could be it or squirels hiding food.
                  A very likely scenario!
                  My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                  to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                  • #10
                    I've had several small potatoes 'relocated' by birds when being dug up. On a couple of occasions potatoes have grown where I've never set them, so in my case I'm sure it's down to my feathered friends.
                    A good beginning is half the work.
                    Praise the young and they will make progress.

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                    • #11
                      when i was digging my spuds last year I dug up a duck egg, completely intact at first i thought it was an anaemic spud. figured it must have been an animal of sorts that put it there, so i like the idea of squirels.

                      ? could i train one to plant them in straight rows
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Creemteez View Post
                        Le Phantom Pomme de Terre Dibber of Olde Eance strikes again!!!!!
                        Oh noooo...quick!!!...hide!!!!
                        "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                        Location....Normandy France

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                        • #13
                          I came across a rooted peeling when I was emptying my compost bin the other week. Couldn't quite believe it - 2 inch bit of peel with 2 long, white roots.

                          Reet
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by reetnproper View Post
                            I came across a rooted peeling when I was emptying my compost bin the other week. Couldn't quite believe it - 2 inch bit of peel with 2 long, white roots.

                            Reet
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                            Me thinks the Potato Gods are having fun at your expence
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                            If a plum tomato breaks the law when it’s young
                            Would it’s criminal past ketchup with it later?

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                            • #15
                              Same thing happened to me yesterday, dug up a couple of potatoes, but I put it down to using homemade compost.

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