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Potato tuber slices being dried in trays of peat, WWII

Potato tuber slices being dried in trays of peat, WWII


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Date: 12th February 2015

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Potato tuber slices being dried in trays of peat, WWII

Supplies of seed potatoes were insufficient to demand during WWII, so Wiliam Campbell, Curator of Kew Gardens devised a method of growing potatoes using slices from the tuber instead. This proved successful. To make them light enough to be transported by plane, slices were dried out in trays of peat for two weeks before ebing sent to Malta, Cyprus and Palestine

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Black And White Female Food History Kew Gardens Mono Monochrome Rbg Kew Royal Botanic Gardens Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Seeds Staff Woman World War Ii Wwii

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