Shropshire Star

Quacking find in Dorothea's Shropshire vegetable patch

Shropshire pensioner Dorothea Clinton thought she was going quackers when she dug up this funny-looking potato.

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Keen grower Dorothea Clinton, from Peaton, near Ludlow, with her duck-shaped potato

The 73-year-old, of Peaton, near Ludlow, thought it bore an uncanny resemblance to a duck and contacted the Shropshire Star to show off her unusual find.

Mrs Clinton's son, Alan, grows potatoes, runner beans, broad beans, peas, beetroot, leek and cabbage in their back garden.

Dorothea Clinton's duck-shaped potato
Dorothea Clinton's duck-shaped potato