What happens when you let your potatoes go.

[debodun]

 

[JaniceM]

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Well, if you have space in your yard, you can plant them.

 

[debodun]

Well, if you have space in your yard, you can plant them.

I plan on it. I'm not going to waste them. Makes an interesting indoor dish garden, though.

 

[JaniceM]

I plan on it. I'm not going to waste them. Makes an interesting indoor dish garden, though.

If somebody comes to your home for dinner, let them see that- so they can think that's what you'll be serving! LOL !!

 

[debodun]

They sell Brussels sprouts, why not potato sprouts?

 

[Keesha]

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You mean this was accidental?

 

[debodun]

Accidentally on purpose. I noticed the eyes sprouting in February and decided to leave them to see what happened.

 

[win231]

I have a few sweet potatoes on my counter that look like that.
Once, I had a few dishes in the sink that I rinsed off but didn't wash for a few days. A few beans were left in the sink strainer. They started to sprout.

 

[MeAgain]

I have a few sweet potatoes on my counter that look like that.
Once, I had a few dishes in the sink that I rinsed off but didn't wash for a few days. A few beans were left in the sink strainer. They started to sprout.

My freind has sweet potato vine growing all over her kitchen,she said it is a pretty plant.

We are having baked potatoes for lunch today,

 

[debodun]

Sweet potato plant

 

[Pappy]

What happens when I let my potatoes go?

They run off with the onions.

Maybe I should leave now.

 

[debodun]

The potatoes are now in repose out by the garage. Let's see what happens.

 

[C'est Moi]

Did you plant them or just toss them out by the garage?

 

[debodun]

Buried.

 

[Kaila]

The 2 pictures, set side by side, in your original post, are fascinating @debodun !

They sure do look like they will make healthy plants.
IF you want to get actual potatoes, to eat, then you will need to "hill up" around them as they grow their straight stems, taller and taller.

You just add some dirt around them, into taller mounds, a couple of times, and then stop later on.

The new potatoes actually grow out sideways, from the lower parts of the upright stems,
(inside the added mound of surrounding dirt, you add or pull up around them)
on those type of potatoes,
while those white roots go downward, to feed the whole plant.

The "hilling up" prevents sunlight from damaging exposed potatoes, which then have green spots if sunlight exposed, and those are NOT safe to eat then.
But hilling up does not need to be fancy, and works well for eatable potatoes in Autumn!

Upright type of Potato plants make great foliage, and pretty flowers too.

Many potatoes from the grocery stores, nowadays, do not sprout much or grow as well as yours did, due to having been prepared for longer storage, from farm to sale point. (Spraying them, and other methods of temperature cooling.... and conditions, prevents them from producing plant or new potato's)

I love the vines from Sweet potatoes too. Bright colored leaves of interesting shape.

 

[debodun]

Thanks for the tip, Kaila. Next project is finding a suitable location for the tomatoes. I don't have a lot of sun in my backyard.

 

[debodun]

I think I have potatoes poking up where I planted the sprouting tubers.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Start thinking about ways to gently hill/mulch the potatoes every few weeks as they grow.

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[debodun]

Good thing I started a compost pile years ago.

 

[debodun]

I got topsoil this morning and mounded up the potatoes. Thanks for the tip. Difficult to tell from the photo, but that's 2 mop pail buckets of soil around the plants.