sockiescat said:



okay i know this is a dumb question but are volunteer potatoes
poisonous?
my mother is driving me around the bend on this issue:S.
we have a few red potato that came through from last years crop so
we
hilled them up.
my mother said they were poisonous if they came up from last
years
potatoes and darn well not to even think of eating them.
now to my way of thinking i dont see it as she does i think volunteer
potatoes should be just as good as any other potatoes.
anyone got thoughts on this :S.

These volunteers are clones of the plants you planted last year, not
random seedlings. No, they are not poisonous. They are just
'seed potatoes' that were stored in the garden rather than in a
root cellar.

The only problem with volunteer potatoes is that they might be a
reservoir for diseases -- PLANT diseases, like virus or blight.
That's the reason that there might be any sort of taint attached to
them.

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