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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.

Can you cut them up before you compost? They should be ok then.

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...

I brown bin mine....  :-[

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.

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.

Put them in a black bag and leave them in the corner to rot.  ???   ;D ;D ;D

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.