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Post by debbiem on Jan 9, 2008 17:45:09 GMT 1
If you are getting some potatoes ready for dinner and you cut off the green bits, are they OK to be put into the composter?
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Post by Sleepy on Jan 9, 2008 17:46:17 GMT 1
If you are getting some potatoes ready for dinner and you cut off the green bits, are they OK to be put into the composter? Except for the fact that they very well may grow, yes that is fine. |
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Post by debbiem on Jan 9, 2008 17:48:33 GMT 1
They wouldn't grow, would they? The odd lopped off corner wouldn't, would it?
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Post by Sleepy on Jan 9, 2008 17:54:30 GMT 1
They wouldn't grow, would they? The odd lopped off corner wouldn't, would it? If it has any eye, yes it very well could. |
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Post by debbiem on Jan 9, 2008 17:56:46 GMT 1
Well I never! It was worth asking the question just to find that out.  |
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Post by owdboggy on Jan 9, 2008 18:34:44 GMT 1
Even potato peel will grow if there is an eye. And so what? We often get a decent crop of spuds from the compost heap. Bonus!
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Post by Sweetleaf on Jan 9, 2008 21:39:52 GMT 1
Even potato peel will grow if there is an eye. And so what? We often get a decent crop of spuds from the compost heap. Bonus! I read once that in America they dont ship whole seed potatoes just little sections of them with chits, saving space and cutting shipping costs, this surprised me a little but its logical, given that America is such a vast country. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Jan 9, 2008 21:48:16 GMT 1
I have potatoes all over my garden....comes from the time when I use to chuck peelings on the huge pile of muck left by the farmer when we lived in the caravans and were doing up the barns...then we spread the muck........ : Still, as OB says, there's nothing wrong with a free harvest! |
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Post by debbiem on Jan 10, 2008 10:46:43 GMT 1
A free harvest, brilliant! Let 'em grow, the more the merrier! I really didn't know they grew so easily. |
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Post by owdboggy on Jan 10, 2008 12:48:38 GMT 1
Right now for the downside (there almost always is). These self grown plants are often the source of blight. Because they often grow unsupervised they do not get the treatment which your properly planted ones do. Keep an eye open for blight and deal with it on ALL your potato plants.
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Post by debbiem on Jan 10, 2008 12:59:00 GMT 1
OK, thanks OB. We've yet to cultivate enough of our new allotment to plant the supervised ones let alone the wayfarers. |
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