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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: suziequeue on July 29, 2012, 11:40:15 am

Title: Gone over potatoes - any ideas what to do with them?
Post by: suziequeue on July 29, 2012, 11:40:15 am

We have a couple of bags of seed potatoes left over that didn't get planted and now they are breaking out of their sacks.


Any ideas how best to dispose of them? I am reluctant to put them on the compost heap as I don't really want potatoes popping up everywhere in the heap.




 

Title: Re: Gone over potatoes - any ideas what to do with them?
Post by: deepinthewoods on July 29, 2012, 06:45:15 pm

plant some now??

Title: Re: Gone over potatoes - any ideas what to do with them?
Post by: Greenerlife on July 29, 2012, 06:59:54 pm

I put mine on the bonfire! 

Title: Re: Gone over potatoes - any ideas what to do with them?
Post by: ddangus on July 30, 2012, 10:31:58 am

Either put them under water in a big tub (if you have a tub big enough) for a couple of weeks and then compost  or put them on the compost heap but cover with black plastic or something similar.

DD

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Post by: RUSTYME on July 30, 2012, 05:48:09 pm

Plant them like ditw says.
Loads of 2nd crop spuds in oct/nov .

Title: Re: Gone over potatoes - any ideas what to do with them?
Post by: Red on August 07, 2012, 08:34:39 pm

it works to plant them in racks of about 4 tyres high really well at this time of year ;D

Title: Re: Gone over potatoes - any ideas what to do with them?
Post by: Blonde on August 14, 2012, 02:29:09 pm

Plant them and get a later crop of potatoes :farmer:

Title: Re: Gone over potatoes - any ideas what to do with them?
Post by: northfifeduckling on August 29, 2012, 05:24:38 pm

I'd plant them. Did last year in a large bucket in the polytunnel and we harvested in spring  ;D .  Blight-free, too, what I can not say of the main crop this summer  :'( :&>