"volunteer potatoes"

[bikermike]

ie the blinking things that pop up from where you missed them last year.

Is it just me, or are they everywhere? I have got volunteers coming up from places where I haven't had spuds for several years. Most confusing...

[mrbadexample]

I've been pulling them up for ages. I sow a line of carrots or lettuce, and they appear right underneath.

[Thelma Sanders]

The people who now have my old small plot asked me yesterday "was the whole plot down to potatoes, cos there are volunteers in all the beds?"
Answer - "No only a quarter of it was potatoes each year" - it's just weird and because I took the contents of my Daleks with me to the new plot, they can't even have grown from peelings in spread compost

I have found a few buried hens eggs this year on the new plot so wonder if something (rats/ squirrels/foxes?) has been moving stuff around over the winter.

[bikermike]

jealous types from other plots...

It is odd, usually I get a few where I planted the previous year, but this year it's all over the place...

[cariann88]

Last year I kept getting potatoes popping up in place where they shouldn't be.

So this year I have decided that I am not planting any potatoes and just harvest the ones that will pop up on the allotment..............nope nothing this year!!!

Knowing my luck next year I will plant some and then they decided they want to show.

[Small pumpkin]

Yeah I've got a spud coming up in this years onion bed. I managed to remove most of them before I planted it up with onions. I've not grown spuds in that bed for 2 years.

I don't mind it. Especially if I can move them to where I want them to grow. It's just a bonus crop

[Runtpuppy]

My 'volunteers' are growing better than the ones I've planted :\

They are growing in the path between the beds, but they look so happy and healthy that I don't want to dig them out!

[lottie dolly]

i recone the very small ones,lay in wait as the grow,then spring into action,like RP says,they are nice spuds,and seem to be up earlier than the newly planted,am still waiting for mine to show.

[Jimmy]

What other volunteers do you get?

I got rid of some Peonies, nasty flowers!
But some pooped up again this year.
Soon relegated to the compost heap where they belong.

My main volunteer is Maretail.
But that won't take the hint.

Jimmy

[Penellype]

My potato buckets which contain compost from my hotbin are full of tomato seedlings. Unfortunately as the tomatoes I grew last year were F1 hybrids, these are not likely to make good plants so I won't be keeping them.

[Bren In Pots]

So long as there's an eye potatoes will grow from peelings, if they've been added to the compost bin that'll be why they're popping up all over the place. Mr Pots gran used to get her best crop from peelings.

[Stan79]

I have a few volunteers this year and so have just planted more spuds around them to make them into rows. The volunteers are romping away and the ones i planted are still slowly poking their heads out so i should get a nicely spaced out crop!