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    Potatoes over-wintered in my potato tubs.

    Hi all,

    For one reason to another I didn't harvest all my potatoes last autumn and left some Sarpo mira, sarpo axona and kestrel in their tubs outside all winter.

    I emptied them all today and harvested loads, I haven't weighed them but they have filled a large hessian sack!
    Some of them had quite a few sprouts which I removed and then left them all in the sun to dry.

    Do you think that they would still be okay to eat?

    Thanks!
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  • #2
    Yes they are ok to eat! I dug volunteers up and ate them last week - I'm stlll here to annoy people

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Thelma Sanders View Post
      Yes they are ok to eat! I dug volunteers up and ate them last week - I'm stlll here to annoy people
      Thanks Thelma that's great to know that they won't be wasted.

      I really do hope that volunteers are a type of potato
      Last edited by SaraJH; 09-04-2017, 05:11 PM.

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      • #4
        Volunteers are potato plants that grow from tubers you missed at harvest time the year before.
        I was forking over the bed getting ready to plant my peas and found big potatoes, just beginning to grow. Goodness knows how I missed them last year *blush*

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        • #5
          Lucky you! I was digging up volunteers last week and all heavily wireworm damaged... straight onto the bonfire they all went.

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          • #6
            I'm really sorry but as a newbie to the term volunteers all I can picture are poor people giving up their time for nothing, only to be dug up and eaten by us all

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            • #7
              I'm still getting volunteers in a bed that hasn't had potatoes for two seasons....
              Last edited by 1Bee; 10-04-2017, 10:42 AM.

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