[Allotment Jack]

Hi
I have noticed a few potato plants coming up from the bed i grew them in last year.
I understand i should rotate and plant elsewhere but will these plants be ok or should i relocate or distroy them to avoid desease?
Hope someone can help?
Thanks Ricky.

[stompy]

They are called volunteers.
The come up from tiny potatoes that you missed last year.

Either dig them out or just hoe them off.
I wouldnt let them grow as they could have diseases from overwintering and they will spoil your crop rotation 

[sloworm]

I have some growing up between the peas! 

[JayG]

 

[PennyS]

I've got them growing in my bean trench - obviously from the compost heap stuff I piled in the bottom. 

[DD.]

Got these 2 years ago after digging up the mangetout.

[Code Red]

Got these 2 years ago after digging up the mangetout.

Mutant zombie potatoes!

I'd be less worried about crop rotation and more worried that they'll be after my brains...

[DD.]

They are Pink Fir Apple spuds and should look like that!

[Aunt Sally]

Them's funny mangetout Dave 

[DD.]

They're the nitrogen fixing nodules.

[Code Red]

They are Pink Fir Apple spuds and should look like that!

Really?

Funny, everything I grow kind of looks like that...

[Christine]

There's hours of fun with pink fir apples spuds when you get the innocents who have never seen them!!!

[barbarella]

I've rotated my spuds since I got my allotment three years ago and now the volunteers are likely to come up anywhere.  Jerusalem artichokes are even worse - luckily I planted them in one spot.  I thought I had dug up every last tuber but there is a flipping forest of 'em coming up.  And then there is that pesky mole 

[Trillium]

I let mine grow on as I find they give me a better crop than freshly sown seed potatoes do. Of course, they sprout in the worst places like in the middle of the leek bed or such, but I let them grow and I'm rewarded. Must say, I've never had anything as mutant as DD's alien potatoes 

[Ice]

I agree with Trillium, my volunteer potatoes last year were better than the ones I planted.