Edible spuds?

[Karen Atkinson]

Acquired a new lottie end of last year. Have groiwn our own spuds but the previous holder had grown others in a different place that season, and these have grown as well (it's in the bit we haven't got around to clearing). They presumably hadn't harvested them all. So my question is - are these edible do you think?

[Karen Atkinson]

[moonbells]

Oh yes, if you don't want the space, the volunteers should be OK. Just watch out for early blight attacks.

My very first year I found a wonky row of volunteer spuds growing. I left them to it, and got a decent number of maincrops. Wish I knew what variety they were as I've never had such good maincrops since!!!!

moonbells

[antipodes]

Try and work out what they are though. If they are earlies, I find the foliage is not as tall and they may already be starting to wilt back. In that case dig 'em up! Otherwise, it's up to you - some people say that gives you more chance of blight, but I have never found that myself.
They certainly are edible and often better than teh ones you have planted, as nature has taken its course! Annoying, isn't it? I got some lovely early Charlottes last week from volunteers, I got about 3 kg of potatoes!

[Karen Atkinson]

thanks. will keep an eye on their foliage.