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Bruce[_28_]

In article >, says...
>
> On 7/25/2016 8:42 PM, Bruce wrote:
> > In article >,
> > says...
> >>
> >> On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 11:40:40 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>> On 2016-07-25 12:23 PM, graham wrote:
> >>>> On 7/25/2016 10:21 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>>> On 2016-07-25 11:20 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> >>>>>> http://tinypic.com/r/2qxbwgy/9
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I'm sure there are more down there but this one was peeking
> >>>>>> out. I'll wait a bit until they're larger, not much larger,
> >>>>>> I hope. Then I'll dig around.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do yourself a favour and dig them up while they are small.... new
> >>>>> potatoes. They are much tastier than big potatoes.
> >>>>>
> >>>> My father would have dug up all of them by now. They were rarely much
> >>>> bigger than a walnut.
> >>>
> >>> That is when they are best. Small new potatoes straight from the garden
> >>> are a real treat.
> >>
> >> Yep! More of the sugars not yet converted to starch!
> >
> > What if you wait until the potatoes are really big and then dug them up?
> > Will you then have BIG new potatoes with most of the sugars not yet
> > converted to starch? In that case digging them up small is counter-
> > productive. Who wants SMALL new potatoes?
> >
> I do!

Don't you want more of a good thing?