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"Plant potatoes on Good Friday" was something that came up a lot. Well, that might be possible in the UK, but I'm blowed if I'm going to dig through the snow to do that here. I wondered if this tradition might be related to the moon phases - since Easter Sunday is the first Sunday following the full moon after the Spring Equinox. But after reading up on the matter, advice about moon-planting of potatoes seems contradictory: a New York Times article from 1991 makes this point too. So maybe I won't bother waiting for a full moon and will go by the soil temperature instead!
I had no idea how many seed potatoes to order, so have probably ordered either far too many or far too few - time will tell.
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Maybe the snow would act like a fleecy cloche. Maybe you could experiment with just one row of snowy spuds?
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