SO, how many different types of potato do you reckon are grown around this world of ours? And just what proportion of them can you buy in the shops? The answer to the former is more than 500. And to the latter? About 15. That is one of the powerful arguments for growing your own. The others, of course, are taste and efficacy knowing that those fresh potatoes came from your own hand, grown in your own, good, earth. I can’t believe that nearly a year has spun by since I wrote my last piece extolling the virtues of growing your own spuds, just a couple of months before we were trapped by Lockdown 1 in Nepal. With increasing age, time spins ever faster but certain imperatives will remain until I am too old to raise a spade.