A new use for sprouted potatoes
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 2:51 pm
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?
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?
