Funny Potatoes

The Fly · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:38 pm Post subject: Funny Potatoes

I noticed what looks like apples growing from my potatoes

I wonder what it is.

monkeynic · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:22 pm Post subject:

your flowers got pollinated. Smile

James Kilkelly · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:45 pm Post subject:

What are the little green tomato-like fruits that my potato plants produced last year, are they the potato seeds, and can I plant them?
Questions I have been asked on occasion, to which I reply, "yes those (poisonous) fruits contained potato seeds, but it is a real troublesome job to grow a crop from them".

The Fly · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks monkeynic,

I'm looking at spuds for 65 years and I never saw the likes.

The Fly · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:00 pm Post subject:

Thank you James. I'll learn until the day I die.

michael brenock · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:35 am Post subject:

you can sow the seeds from those fruits and the following year you can plant the mini tubers produced and who knows you might produce the next great variety of potatoes.
michael brenock horticultural advisor (retired)

The Fly · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:19 am Post subject:

Thanks Michael , I could be on the road to becoming a millionaire.

I'll keep you in mind when it works

inishindie · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:41 am Post subject: Double

You could produce some new "doubles" Twice the crop......see the money roll in.....

The Fly · Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 7:41 pm Post subject:

Ah! I'd say ye have special soil in Inishowen to grow those spuds.

You wouldn't get them that big in Tipperary

I must call over for a barrow of Inishowen clay