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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: cacran on June 08, 2010, 18:01:43

Title: Are these potatoes okay to eat?
Post by: cacran on June 08, 2010, 18:01:43
I removed a tarpoline from one of my beds. Underneath was lots of potatoes growing from last years crop. There were so many, they had grown in rows.
When I dug them up the potatoes looked good. I peeled them and cut them up for boiling. They looked a bit transparent, not like potatoes usually look. I boiled them but they took ages. I used them and they seemed okay. Would they haqve been okay or not?Should I destroy the rest of the old crop?
Title: Re: Are these potatoes okay to eat?
Post by: betula on June 08, 2010, 18:09:12
Some people call these volunteers,they grow from spuds left in the ground.

As long as they are not green,poison potatoes are green ones they probably will not harm you but most people dig them out. :)
Title: Re: Are these potatoes okay to eat?
Post by: Sally A on June 09, 2010, 18:19:12
Next door is letting me use his garden as he is poorly, found a load of self seeded spud plants and managed to salvage enough new spudlets for a tea for 2.....waste not want not  ;)
Title: Re: Are these potatoes okay to eat?
Post by: PurpleHeather on June 09, 2010, 20:44:12
They are perfectly fine. Eat and enjoy.