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?
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. :blob7:
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..
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!
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.
Quote from: Tee Gee on June 11, 2020, 10:52:24
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...
Actually, I've just realised, planting the eyes from potato peelings was how Dad, RIP, started in gardening when he was tiny.