Topic: Potato Peelings grow in our Compost Heap and Wormery

[shambasarfi]

Potato peelings did not seem to be eaten by our worms so I've stopped adding them there and have been only putting them in the compost bin.  However a lot of the eyes in the peel start to grow so can I use these and try and grow potatoes from them?

[Tiny Clanger]

Potatoes grow from nothing just about anywhere I think.  I made the mistake of adding rotten shop bought tomatoes to the compost in the winter months.  When hte compost was turned out to the border, I had a plethora of tomato plants all over the place.  HUNDREDS of them.

[saddad]

If the eyes are growing then the "shoot" can be planted and will grow as normal... I agree T/C tomatoes are officially a weed in our lotties... not helped by me throwing any with Blossom End rot out of the Poly and greenhouse into the brassica/potato beds..

[Tee Gee]

This reminds me of when I worked on a Sewage Plant many years ago!

As you may be aware the human digestive system cannot digest tomato seeds and as a result these travel down the sewers and often germinate in the sludge drying beds!

I regularly harvested the tomatoes and as an aside mushrooms were also quite plentiful so these plus a rasher of bacon made for a good FOC breakfast!

[markfield rover]

It’s how my grandfather grew them . Last year I put eaten sweet corn cobs into the hotbin composter , the next time I lifted the lid each cob looked like a green hedgehog spines/shoots 2 inches long.

[gray1720]

I regularly harvested the tomatoes and as an aside mushrooms were also quite plentiful so these plus a rasher of bacon made for a good FOC breakfast!

Just so long as you don't get the bacon from the same source...

[gray1720]

Actually, I've just realised, planting the eyes from potato peelings was how Dad, RIP, started in gardening when he was tiny.