Potato flowers?

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I seem to remember reading . . . "removing the flower heads from Potato plants promotes better tuba size", or have I been dreaming???
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Hi CJS

Life's too short... :wink:

Read this thread and make up your own mind.

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And the flowers are beautiful!
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glallotments wrote:And the flowers are beautiful!



Aren't they just?


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Marie Antoinette (wife of Louis XVI of France) wore potato flowers in her hair to popularise the potato.
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