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Center of picture shows the tomato like fruits.



Are these just seed potatoes or do i have something weird?

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and don't eat them as they are poisonous!

Thanks flighty

I may well have a go with these tsp.  Got lots!

I would cut them of and put them in the in to stop any youngsters trying to find ot if they are edible.

I wonder if they're more common this year, I don't remember people asking about them quite so often in previous years. Something to do with the dry weather?

I think they tend to prevalent during long hot dry summers

Pigeonseed I'm sure it is both more common and to do with the weather this year. More often than not they don't appear at all which is why they come as a bit of a surprise to gardening newcomers when they do!  :)

I always get them if I leave the flower heads on!

they are called potato apples as there nick name!! they are not edible! .  They are the seeds for the potato, we   are use to the cultivated tuber but these apples are the seed of the tuber takes around 2/5 years for full tuber maturaty

Some varieties produce them, some don't. British Queen, for instance, has sterile pollen, so it only produces them when it's cross-pollinated. This year most of the buds are falling off my spuds, presumably because of the drought. British Queen and Negresse have bloomed, but that's all.