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  • #1

    green potatoes

    Hi all,

    All i seem to do today is ask questions, sorry, anyway I harvested one of my potatoe plats last week and got a really good crop of lovely white potatoes.

    We have had most of them but there were two left on the kitchen work surface for about three days, I came to them earlier and they seem to be turning green? I have heard that green potatoes can be poisonous, is it only if you pick them green or if these turn green will they be pouisonous as well?

    I was hoping to store them but dont know if it would be worth it.

    Many thanks for any advice.
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    Poisonous, throw them away. Although, I think you'd have to eat a lot of them to do you any harm.

    When storing it's important to keep them cool, ventilated and in the dark. A bit like me at work to be honest....

    Edit: just found this: http://news.curiouscook.com/2006/08/...-toxic-as.html

    Edit edit: and this...http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/naturaltoxins
    Last edited by HeyWayne; 23-07-2008, 03:20 PM.
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    • #3
      Don't know if it would be advised by H&S brigade but if ours start to go green I just peel the green away~I'd imagine if you only left them out for a little while the green's not too deep.Our 1st year of growing Andi left almost our whole harvest of spuds in the garage to dry out~forgetting the broken window allowed all day sun to shine directly onto them!
      Let me apologise now if you take my advice & spend the day tomorrow being ill but I always do it & none of us have ever suffered!
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      • #4
        Originally posted by HeyWayne View Post
        Poisonous, throw them away. Although, I think you'd have to eat a lot of them to do you any harm.

        When storing it's important to keep them cool, ventilated and in the dark. A bit like me at work to be honest....
        You wimp!!
        the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

        Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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        • #5
          Originally posted by andi&di View Post
          You wimp!!
          Oi, we gotta be careful what we eat in our house at the minute!
          A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

          BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

          Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

          What would Vedder do?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by HeyWayne View Post
            Oi, we gotta be careful what we eat in our house at the minute!
            What hey??Did I miss summit?!
            I was awful when I was pregnant even if something was a day before best before I'd struggle to risk it!!~but now it seems I'll quite happily risk poisoning my babes with green pots!
            the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

            Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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            • #7
              If you're in any doubt - rather than dump them - why not keep them - in the light - and get a couple of free seed pots for perhaps new pots at Xmas?

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              • #8
                good lord I will be wating all my spuds tonight, no doubt about that. cheers everyone muchly apreciated

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                • #9
                  I've found that hoMe grown spuds go Green much quicker than supermarket ones if left in the light. Makes me suspicious about what they do to the supermarket ones. I always keep them in the dark if I don't eat a whole digging in one go. But if they do go a bit green I just peel away the green bits

                  caz

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                  • #10
                    You do need to keep your spuds in the dark. I put them in the cupboard under the stairs - it's so dark in there I can't find them again some days!
                    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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                    • #11
                      cheers flumery.

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