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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

I found the new potatoes fit perfectly inside canning jars, so I canned a 
bunch up for when I run out of them.  I've also found even the smallest ones 
taste great, and I've used them in stews, just boiled, chopped up for 
breakfast potatoes, just about everything.  I would never have even thought 
about trying to eat them except for James' comment.
 
Grown indoors in pots.... hmmm, now there is an idea.  I'm thinking that 
should be a good experiment to try just in case I don't have any leftovers 
for seed potato next year.
 
A local here, when he drives about 90miles to the city, goes to some 
organically growing grocery store and buys potatoes there and uses them for 
seed potato.
 
I think it would be fun to try growing a lot of different varieties, like 
those blue ones !  LOL.
 
Oh well, I need to see if there is some kind of missle base west of here, as 
I was just outside and could swear I saw a vertical launch, with a fire tail 
at the bottom, right up until it disappeared in the sky.  Didn't go 
horizontal.  Think it is odd..
 

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:




Leslie; I do that all the time (seed potato is expensive, so I only buy 
unusual types that I can't get in the store). If I have potatoes sprout, I 
stick them in some little unused space in the garden. I do it all through 
spring and summer...if there isn't enough time for full-grown potatoes, I 
might just get a few new potatoes. They don't get as much attention or 
hilling from me as the regular potato bed, but I get a few potatoes out of 
what most poeple would throw away. If I don't dig them, they often 
overwinter and grow the next spring.

I saw a show about Victorian gardening where they alway had pots of potatoes 
growing in the heated glasshouses so the 'big house' always had new 
potatoes...just knock them out of the pot, send them up to the kitchen, and 
start a new plant in the pot. My greenhouse isn't heated, but I could still 
stick my sprouting potatoes in pots in the winter and have new potatoes at 
odd times of the year.




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I noticed in the first potato garden that potatoes too close to the surface 
had some green on them, even though they were covered.  Some I didn't catch, 
and later covered them up, but they stayed green on the once exposed side.
 
I've been tossing any potatoes that have green on them, all of which have 
been the size of a small bird's egg.  I read they were poisonous and figured 
better safe than sorry.
 

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:



>Poked my fingers down and sure enough found taters, so hilled up a bit 
more soil.

Excellent.  When it was time to hill my potatoes, one would have had to use 
a water bucket.  The areas between rows were forever standing with water.  
That's why you see in my picture that one of the Russets (the others are 
Norland Red) has a spot of green.   By the bye, the green is NOT solanine, 
it's 
chlorophyl.  Solanine is colorless and tasteless, but if you see the green, 
there is a larger than normal concentration of solanine as well.  Due to 
neglected hilling there will be a number of greened potatoes this year.  They 
are set aside for French fries.  While the temps of boiling and baking don't 
break down the solanine, deep fat frying does, renders it harmless.


>>   They can't possibly be seeds can they?  

They are indeed and if the fruit naturally develops a white star on the 
blossom end, the seeds will be viable as well.  But growing plants from seeds 
is difficult, has to be started indoors in the winter like tomatoes, and the 
potatoes will not be true to type.


James
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Probably right, because they were no longer firm at all.........
 
I did that earlier in the year also.  Maybe 40% actually grew plants, and the 
soil was bad where I planted them so yield was not so good.  But one planted 
in a better spot actually grew a couple of really good size potatoes.
 
 

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:



> >But I just stuck a few potatoes (russets or small idahos probably) from 
> the grocery store which had been in mom's fridge for a few months and had 
> some eyes sprouting 

Ah, good practice actually.  I've done that too and got excellent potatoes. 
But those potatoes are LAST year's crop, they've been in storage since 
late last fall.

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-- On Mon, 8/3/09, Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> I found the new potatoes fit
> perfectly inside canning jars, so I canned a bunch up for
> when I run out of them.  I've also found even the smallest
> ones taste great, and I've used them in stews, 

Early in the season my mother would dig up potatos when very small, and fix 
them with new peas in a cream sauce. My memory tells me the potatos were no 
bigger than the peas, though expect they were.
Van Dell