[nwalch]

Well not quite but they do look like small tomatoes growing on my maincrop (Cara I think) potatoes. Does anyone know what they are and what (if anything) I should do with them?

[SalJ1980]

Don't do anything. They are poisonous!

[Aunt Sally]

They both belong to the Solanaceae family together with deadly nightshade, eggplant, capsicum, tobacco, and petunia.

[nwalch]

They both belong to the Solanaceae family together with deadly nightshade, eggplant, capsicum, tobacco, and petunia.

Does that mean its nothing to worry about and I should just leave them. Will the potatoes be ok to eat?

[FCG]

Potatoes will be perfectly fine. This is how you get new variety's of potato.. these are 'potato seeds'. If you pop them in the ground you -may- get a new variety of edible spuds. Or green wriggling monsters. Who knows?

[Trillium]

The little flowers on top will eventually produce seeds if pollinated, which obviously yours have. The seeds evolve through a mini sort of tomato on top which you'd then open and pull out the seeds. This is used only if you're breeding new varieties of potatoes. Otherwise, bin these little 'toms' so that children and animals don't eat them. As Aunty says, they are poisonous as they stand and people who don't know the difference are at risk. Normally, few potato flowers set seed pods. The potatoes in the ground are not at all affected by this.

[Apoc]

i have been looking these up on google, there have been some good results with people growing some nice looking spuds from the seeds.

plus, plus you have no old spuds hanging around between seasons

search "true potato seed" for info, quite a good read, but then i am a bit twisted  :twisted: