IRISH POTATO

This takes me back to thousands of miles and more than half a Century. moulding potatoes in the West of Ireland.
Potato tubers grow from th stalks and the soil needs to be plied -up around then to ensure growth.
Here there is less water and considerably more heat, but the spuds are still the same. At this time of Year, here there is less blight, which resulted in maybe over a million of poor Irish peasants losing their lives, either from direct starvation or in coffin ships to the US.
It was a horrific period in our history, either side of 1846, where the population of the island dropped from about 8 million to maybe 4 million when I was born, 100 years later.
Of course there was plenty of food in the country, but it was shipped elsewhere. Past but not forgotten.
Anyway the Irish potato is good and well and living in Lusangazi.