The potato is one of our most popular foods and now a county nursery is celebrating its versatility with a special event.

Dundry Nurseries in Bamfurlong Lane, Cheltenham is staging a Potato Festival this weekend, January 20 -21.

More than 150 varieties of potato will be on display from 9am - 5pm with demonstrations, sideshows and expert advice.

Dundry Nurseries owner Chris Evans said: "I have spent my life in horticulture, working the land commercially for more than forty years.

I was hooked from a very young age, growing up on our family nursery, mesmerised by the wizardry of my Dad, who could just make nothing turn into something. He woke the slumbering giants.

"I watched as seed sprouted and grew to harvest and as potatoes barged out of the ground leaving a trail of glowing tubers behind them.

"Those early recollections are still embedded in my commitment to gardening and my desire to promote and share the grandest adventure.

"For the last twenty years we have staged a Potato Festival. It's not just a commercial moneymaking romp, but rather a celebration of this most extraordinary of plants.

"Recognition of its history, its diversity and its value as a vigorous food crop."

He added: "We do sell seed potatoes, but the event is much more than that it is a celebration of this most remarkable plant."

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