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Title: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them
Post by: Common_Clay on November 06, 2007, 16:06:47
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.
Title: Re: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them
Post by: star on November 06, 2007, 16:14:46
Can you cut them up before you compost? They should be ok then.
Title: Re: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them
Post by: Common_Clay on November 06, 2007, 16:18:31
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...
Title: Re: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them
Post by: saddad on November 06, 2007, 16:42:42
I brown bin mine....  :-[
Title: Re: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them
Post by: Common_Clay on November 06, 2007, 16:50:04
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.
Title: Re: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them
Post by: redimp on November 06, 2007, 18:02:36
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.
Title: Re: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them
Post by: cornykev on November 06, 2007, 18:20:29
Put them in a black bag and leave them in the corner to rot.  ???   ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Inedible Potatoes - and what to do with them
Post by: tim on November 06, 2007, 18:57:46
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.