Last Year's Potatoes

RiderOnTheStorm · 19-04-2020 10:53am #1

I was going over some of my raised beds last week, and I guess I didn't pull up all of last years potatoes. Some plants have a few decent sized spuds on em. Question is, can I eat them ? Am concerned that they are last years forgotten tubers, and how early it is now. I need the space and hate to throw them away. There is only enough for 1 or 2 dinners, but I really like to eat my own produce....

Any thoughts? Ta

tjjber · 19-04-2020 11:43am

Same thing happened to me last year. I let them grow, earthed them up and added plenty of potato fertiliser. We had a fabulous crop that was earlier than normal. I made sure to dig them out completely at the end of the year though. I was afraid there might be issues with pests and diseases and depleted nutrients if I grew them again in the same place this year.

tjjber · 19-04-2020 11:47am

Just realised you want to eat them now not use them as seed potatoes. I'm unsure whether it would be safe to eat them, I can't see why not as they have essentially just been stored for an extended period like most of the potatoes we eat from the supermarket (except in the ground)