Potato help please

Hey everyone!

I was out in the garden tonight potting up some plant and noticed my potato bag from last year has lots of potatoes with shoots at the top of the soil.

Can you tell me if I should harvest these or are they likely to sprout more tatties?!

 

Hey Snowbaby

Sprouting tubers run the risk of solanine poisoning so best not eat em.

 

Another one for me to look up !

Its ....
Solanine is a glycoalkaloid poison found in species of the nightshade family, such as the potato, the tomato, and the eggplant

 

Nice one Harold Yep, not one to do if you're pregnant

While we're on it, a reminder that once the tuber is exposed to sunlight and gone green, solanine is produced throughout the tuber, not just in the green bit. So if you cut the green bit off and eat the rest, the world will still fall out of your bottom

 

Good god you live and learn. I have often just lopped of the green bits and cooked the rest...not that I'm a mean Scot just canny and had no idea that the whole potato was best not eaten otherwise you are in for a doze of the trots!

 

You might not put the cause and effect together, can take 6 hours to bogify you

 

This has given me an. I must keep an eye open for a couple of green tatties and store them for using on a flaming scrouger who I'd be happy to see confined to a toilet for hours on end.1 of husband's friends is very good at turning up unannounced around supper time and then as my granny used to say "my god he'd got his sitting breeks (Scottish for trousers) on. The next time he invites himself for something to eat I'll peel the green horrors and serve them up to him. He'll be none the wiser. This sounds a "cunny plan" a la Baldrick (I was a big fan of Blackadder!)

 

Thanks everyone. I'll dig them up and start over !