A new use for sprouted potatoes

[John Yeoman]

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?

[Nature's Babe]

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.