Can i eat the Potatoes?

[rootball]

Back in the summer, i found one potato growing roots in a bag forgotten in the kitchen cupboard.
I decided to plant it in a pot thinking fingers crossed it might flower but was not expecting anything.
Put it in a sunny-ish part of the garden and watered it when watering the other parts of the garden, it grew but never flowered.
Today as the green of the plant had all gone brown i emptied the pot to find some potatoes
What i want to know, as the original potato was from shop bought bag can i eat them?

[Snoop Puss]

Those look like proper beauties, rootball.

The reason why you often see advice saying not to grow shop-bought potatoes is they aren't certified as disease free. But that means potato diseases, not human diseases. Eat and enjoy, I say.

[rootball]

Hi Snoop Puss, considering all i did was water them they do look nice.
Cooked with garlic butter is my choice yum

[Bren In Pots]

They look perfect rootball so enjoy.

[Nicos]

New potatoes in October!…how lovely…most envious! Enjoy!

My choice is always lashings of butter and fresh chives.

[rootball]

Hi Everyone. Boiled and covered with butter and poached eggs they were very tasty yum. To think that one potato was almost going to go in bin too.

[Nicos]

That was clearly worth doing wasn’t it!…smashing results!

I’ve got three incredible wrinkly spuds in my cupboard…hidden behind something for some reason…I’ll be doing the same as you…waste not want not eh?

As Snoop mentioned , The only thing with shop bought ones is they are apparently sprayed with something to inhibit sprouting , and could carry potato disease ( which is why it’s ’safer/ risk free’ buying certified seed potato)….so it was wise to plant in a pot.
Clearly the sprouting wasn’t particularly affected!

[rootball]

I'm thinking i will try it again this year just to see what happens.

Need to remember not to look after them just water them like i did last year and keep my fingers crossed.

[Andraste]

We've done this a few times with good results but we tend to buy organic spuds with dirt on rather than the sanitised supermarket pre-packed bags

[JoaoLeaftide]

Ha, love that the neglect method worked out. I had a similar thing with some forgotten Charlotte potatoes that sprouted in the cupboard, chucked them in a pot more out of guilt than anything and got a decent handful by autumn. Never tastes as good as the ones you weren't expecting.