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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Kleftiwallah on October 17, 2020, 10:57

Title: Really teeny tiny potatoes.
Post by: Kleftiwallah on October 17, 2020, 10:57

Good morning everyone,  is it possible to get a crop from the really small potatoe we dig up, about the size of a marble or your thumbnail, and if so how? ::)

Cheers,   Tony.

Title: Re: Really teeny tiny potatoes.
Post by: Nobbie on October 17, 2020, 14:24

Possible, yes. Advisable or worthwhile, no.

Title: Re: Really teeny tiny potatoes.
Post by: Yorkie on October 18, 2020, 13:06

There will always be the risk that they are infected with virus, hence Nobbie's comment that it's not advisable.

You will always have some of these 'volunteer' spuds left in the ground after harvesting your crops; they do produce plants the next but invariably they are in the middle of a bed of something else (as you've rotated your crops) and so I just pull them out for this reason too.