Has anybody tried this trick with potatoes? In April this year, I chanced on some supermarket potatoes that I had left in the pantry too long. They had grown sprouts. I took an old-fashioned apple corer and dug out each sprout, leaving a long plug of potato attached.
I dried the plugs for a day then dropped a handful into a large builder’s sack half-filled with compost and I tossed some compost on top. As the leaves grew, I simply threw on more compost.
In May, I pushed over the sack and found several handfuls of delicious little potatoes. And no earthing up!
Moral: don’t throw away sprouted potatoes! We’re told not to grow out potatoes bought at supermarkets because of disease risks. But this way, the risks seem minimal.
Has anyone else done this?
A new use for sprouted potatoes
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Hi John, waste not want not, and an enterprising use for the apple corer !
now I wonder if i could have new potatoes for christmas, some of mine have sprouted too.
now I wonder if i could have new potatoes for christmas, some of mine have sprouted too.
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