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DIGGING UP DOUG

ne vegetable that seemed to have caused a considerable stir this year was a giant potato discovered by accident in Colin and Donna Craig-Brown’s overgrown vegetable patch in Hamilton, New Zealand. They were digging over an area they’d been using to grow cucumbers when Colin’s hoe struck something solid underground. Scraping

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