Topic: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them

[Common_Clay]

Can anyone say what the best thing to do with inedible potatoes is, please? When I say 'inedible' I mean the ones that were either green or had holes in when first dug up. I left a lot on the surface on the allotment and they've sort of turned black, but they'll take too long in the compost and probably won't burn... any ideas? Thanks.

[star]

Can you cut them up before you compost? They should be ok then.

[Common_Clay]

If there's another option I'd rather it, cutting up would take a long time, there are lots of them and probably things in them too...

[saddad]

I brown bin mine....  :-[

[Common_Clay]

I was considering the same thing, but then I thought of the slugs or whatever may be in there dying a slow death in the heat... so I'm thinking they may just get put in the undergrowth.

[redimp]

Potatoes lying around are where blight starts each year.  The first reports on blightwatch are nearly always for outgrade piles - which are piles where farmers put seed potatoes that don't cut the mustard, rather than in crops.  I  just bung em on the compost heap.

[cornykev]

Put them in a black bag and leave them in the corner to rot.  ???   ;D ;D ;D

[tim]

So long as they are not obviously blighted, I compost them as they are.

Get a few good plants on the heap from them each year.