Potato Weirdo

Can anyone help our maincrop potato's think there tomato's.On the tip of the plants where the flowers are,have now got growing what looks like small bunches of lookalike tomato's.
Honest i'm not going loopy nor have i been on the turps!!!! :confused:

 

hi josephine
oh the weird and wonderful things about gardening
have seen it before ,but dont know what it is.
two for price of one :D everybodys doing it

 

The fruits on the top of your potatoes are exactly that, fruit. BUT despite looking like tomatoes and actually being related to them they are very very POISONOUS! Under no circumstances should you eat them!

 

Thats where the seeds are josephine,I have actually tried growing spuds from them.
Gotta say it was not a rip roaring sucsess :D
As Pal says may look like toms, but definitly not edible. :eek:

 

Thanks Kathy3,Palustris and Pete.So glad i asked before i made up the salad!!!! :eek: :eek:

 

Palustris ? as they are poisonous can i compost them with the foliage when i harvest the crop.
Thanks again.

 

We never do, but then we do not put potato or tomato tops on the compost heap anyway (blight problems). You may find that you get seedling potatoes growing from them in your compost.

 

What do you do with with your potato and tomato tops.You realise i'm just into veg growing. :confused:

 

Green waste bin, used to burn them, but I forgot to leave a space for bonfires when I did the garden. If your plants are clean with no sign of infection, then they can go on your compost heap, no trouble. We live in a potato growing area and we always get blight.

 

Thanks for your advice.

 

Hi Palustris,just wanted to let you know we lifted our main crop of potato's today.
They looked great and we decided to take your advice and to put the tops and weird tomato like pods into our council rubbish collection.
Thanks again for your help.


Josie.