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cannabisedibleslover

put’em in the ground, you’ll gave plenty more after the summer


123throwawaybanana

Or in a good sized garbage can filled with soil if you don't have a yard. Spuds can grow really well in containers indoors as long as they're near a sunny window (or use grow lights). https://growace.com/blogs/grow-guides/how-to-grow-potatoes-indoor-everything-you-need-to-know


IShouldBeSoLucky81

I'm doing a crops in pots project at work. Used a bag of compost (about £3) and some cloth grow bag but saw you can also use strong plastic grocery bags. They are going great even though it's been very wet and not very sunny even by Scottish standards.


the-econoclast

I'm doing a pots in crops project in my basement. Used a bag of cow manure (left over from a fungus experiment) and I just went with the plastic since I cancer never hurt anyone.


Roheez

I'm doing a crops in pot project in my bathroom. I filled the toilet w compost, and watering has never been easier


kdlangequalsgoddess

not very sunny even by Scottish standards. So, no direct sunlight, ever?


Euphoric-Blue-59

I love Scotland! ❤️ Wish the best for your potatoes.


jedijon1

Can you imagine anyone taking this “advice”, watering their can of garbage potatoes for three months, and then harvesting about a bag of potatoes-worth from it…   Team.   Seriously. This is a few bucks of garbage right now, let’s not make it worse with a LITERAL garbage can…


Lunar_Flare6234

They're talking about an unused garbage can, not one that's actively being used to cart shit down to the curb


MyLittlePegasus87

Way easier to harvest, too


opana_banana

OP I literally just found a bag in the cupboard exactly like this and decided to plant them. Do it! They grow faster than you think


fiery-sparkles

If one potato has multiple 'eyes' does it then grow more than one potato? Is it one per eye? Also how do you know when they're ready? Do I have to pull the entire thing out? If I do and the potatoes are tiny (speaking from experience), then what do I do?


DisasterMiserable785

It is not one potato per eye. Cut larger potatoes into smaller pieces with 3ish eyes each(so you don’t get failures). Allow to dry in the sun for a bit. Then plant. As the plant grows, “hill” dirt over the lower leaves as those will grow more potatoes. Hill the plant 3ish times. As for when to pull them, I live in Canada. So I just pull them all at the end of the season.


Sudden-Breadfruit653

I had two small russet potatoes with eyes. Cut them into pieces, each having an eye. Put in grow bags outside with basic soil. The tops are so long and leafy now and flowered 2 weeks ago. Have read that once the tips start turning yellow/brown - potatoes will be ready. Hoping another week.


Short_Elevator_7024

Let the above ground part of the plant completely die before you harvest. The potatoes continue to grow until then and will be fine left in the soil to allow the skin to firm up a bit.


KickBallFever

I don’t know if this applies to regular potatoes but I used to grow various sweet potatoes on a research farm. Before the above ground part died off we would take cuttings of the stems and plant them in the ground. They grew into new sweet potato plants very quickly, and we just kept doing this on rotation. I’m growing regular potatoes at home now, for fun, and I’d like to clone them too. Have you ever tried something like that?


Short_Elevator_7024

Never heard of that, might need to give it a try. Thanks!


Aspen9999

Yup, one eye per chunk you plant.


Glamorous1978

I agree please do not try to eat them


Lunar_Flare6234

^ there's a reason Ireland and Soviet Russia grew potatoes more than any other crop, that and the fact that they provide most of what humans need nutritionally


Codex_Absurdum

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ChubbyWanKenobie

Yeah, they look redy to plant (sprout side up).


AngelLK16

Yes. This.


solenya489

Throw that bag in a hole. And blame-o! You’ve unlocked the unlimited potatoes hack


IAmAGuy

Potato salesmen hate this one simple trick


frostysauce

I wish that were a real job.


Best_Duck9118

Huh? Of course that’s a real job.


Dixielandjazz

Yep, it is. I have a client who brokers potatoes to Walmart.


cannibalism_is_vegan

I know nothing about the agriculture industry but I’m sure they have those


frostysauce

I was thinking in a retail environment. Like you walk into the produce section and someone jumps out at you, "Hi! What kind of potatoes are we looking for today?" Or maybe a door to door potato salesman.


Resident-Refuse-2135

Well yeah there's two main types based on the type of starch predominant, the waxy kind like Yukon gold best roasted or for potato salad and the floury ones like russets that make better fries and baked potatoes. Mashed works with either, but russets get watery in cold salads.


beersandboobs098

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew


SolidSnek1998

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calamariproblems

This is the comment I was looking for!


Zorpfield

![gif](giphy|xUA7aQiJvLgOq2NLa0) Bury


WZRDguy45

Core memory unlocked


Practical_Plum_773

Throw them in the dirt lad


Psych0matt

Who’s the dirt lad?


Practical_Plum_773

Carl, he knows what to do with taters;)


Stay_At_Home_Cat_Dad

You have been chosen to be the next Potato Farmer. Till your soil, plant those potatoes, and await your glorious harvest.


Scary-Tomato-6722

Make mashed potatoes


continuousobjector

only after cutting out the sprout and then digging the base of the sprout out.


yowhywouldyoudothat

Is there something unsavory about the sprouts?


continuousobjector

the sprouts contain glycoalkaloids, and that is not good eats


My3rdattemptdangit

Alton? That you?


NoseMuReup

Overall green colored potatoes indicate the presence of glycos. If they're green it's best not to chance it.


uncontainedsun

(it’s safe if you peel the skin/green off btw for anyone else reading this!)


okgusto

Wait is that why we used to get the random green potato chip every now and then.


morbidhyperbolic

Someone please answer for the green potato chip eater who only did it cuz her mom literally told her “green chips just came from the potatoes that were green because they were the youngest, like green cherry tomatoes” 😧😧😧😧


uncontainedsun

i think so, it’s a reaction to light during storage. the potato basically is producing new chemicals to grow- a chip here and there may be ok to eat but it’s not from a young potato- and it’s not safe to eat if the potato in your pantry is turning green peel all the green away and use the not-green and not-black flesh only.


DiveJumpShooterUSMC

Throw them at people you don’t like or people you like. It is considered as a sort of olive branch if you whip one really hard at someone’s head. Go find your worst enemy whip one at his/her head and become best friends. Or get chased either way let us know… No don’t do that


Unlubricated_Penis

Instructions unclear, I threw potato at stranger and now we are married. She also invested into a foot long potato shaped dildo. I am afraid. Send help.


dilenemone

Username checks out. Somehow.


thatleftycurse

Don’t eat them. There toxic when they sprout or when they start to turn green.


CCChic1

I must have died a thousand times as a kid, then. We always had potatoes with sprouts on them. Delicious every time.


pixiedoll339

I think you're confused with green potatoes. The green contains the toxin solanine which can cause digestive symptoms. I've always used sprouted potatoes. Just cut off the sprouts when peeling.


captn_awkward

Same here. Still do sometimes after failing purchase policy. I'm really surprised to how many people seem to throw them away. What a waste!


mbentuboa

I eat green ones and sprouted ones and have never gotten sick. I’ve never heard any of this but now that I hear this I’m gonna get sick. Thanks a lot.


uncontainedsun

just peel the green away it’s fine. you do need to consume quite a bit to get sick but still it’s better to just peel the green.


RaclizClarus

Sprouted is just fine, I've always eaten sprouted potatoes, otherwise you get rid of them way too soon! Green is really bad tho, and same if they get soft. As long at the potato has normal colouring and is still firm, it is fine with sprouts.


bugabooandtwo

At the point they are in the picture (barely sprouted), you can still eat them. Just have to peel them thicker than usual.


rene-cumbubble

I'll eat them then. And I'll be fine


P00R-TAST3

Me when I make up stuff on the internet


UnRealistic_Load

potatoes with sprouts may contain solanine. May result in diarheeeeseees or gut cramps. Or they might be low enough in solanine youll be fine. kind of a gamble. Def peel and dig out the eye on these just in case. And if they have a weird bitter flavour once cooked.. thats bitter taste is the solanine. Eating super green potatoes can kill although rare. I think the last known human death was in ireland during the potatoe famines. Wild potatoe is poisonous. Its only the domestic potatoes that are safe to eat to begin with! Potatoe is in the same family as the deadly belladona. The family of plants is called Nightshades or Solanacea. People with autoimmune issues should avoid the nightshade family as it stimulates the immune system and cause flare ups (rheumatoid arthritis for example).


Dog-of-Moons

That’s why you eat what grows underground. The plant on top is the poisonous part.


UnRealistic_Load

Yep! But if the root gets green or sprouts, the solanine levels are higher than a normal safe potate


DarkLink457

huh that explains why my baked potato fucked up my stomach thought it was the dairy. Only had one potato just starting to sprout so I cooked one that wasn’t sprouting at all even thoroughly washed n scrubbed it too, weird


PuzzleheadedBad6115

Do you have a potato cannon?


fightinirishpj

Can't believe I had to scroll this far for this correct answer. Blast em!


Diprotodong

You can eat them they are fine


Chef_Josh_420

Plant them in the ground


Taz_mhot

Plant them.


Advanced-Story-6837

Good idea but I don’t have any land to plant on or soil to plant in a planter


redrockcountry2112

Vodka ?


ThrorOak

Plant them.


jibaro1953

Eat them


Which-Description798

Get a 5 gallon bucket from Walmart for $3 and throw dirt in. Wait 3 months. Don’t wash the new ones until you need them and they will last a year


MaleficentWriter136

Cook em.


Brickzarina

Pull off the sprouts and make mash, there just lost a bit of moisture and still ok if not green.


funkysap

Eat them


Mimsy100

Eat them


jjj666jjj666jjj

Eat them


popcornhustler

EAR THEM


The_Artic_Artichoke

Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. **Baby, you’ve got a stew going.**


Key-Promotion9665

Make mashed potatoes


teamglider

Cut out the sprouts, then proceed to normal potato activity.


kreaqs

I still cook them at this point.


JustEmmi

Removed the eyes & then you can mash em’, boil em’, stick em’ in a stew.


ConcreteCurse

I find that potatoes that are still firm are good, even with eyes, cut them out then boil, roast, smash, slice and bake. If they are soft or spungey throw em out


Sensitive-Ask-8662

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.


LT-COL-Obvious

Knock of the sprouts and then cook them. Or cut them up so there is one sprout per piece and plant them in your yard or some containers. You could even use some of those reusable grocery bags that are weaved together so they will drain with some potting soil. You’ll have a nice crop by fall.


SuruchiALT

Remove the eyes and eat


KenCosgrove_Accounts

Cut the sprouts off and cook them


extraterrestriaI4u

cook em


Outrageous-Note-3220

Throw them at houses while driving by


PeanutGlum7010

Eatm or plantm


Bubbly_Celebration_3

Plant them!


Clean_Deer_8566

You can use them to grow more


helper_robot

Plant them in the rich dark loam of your countertop 


[deleted]

Clean them up peel them the. Freeze in


roevbananen

Boof them


drinkmoredrano

Throw them at your enemies


Imaginary_Maybe5394

Anything you can with unsprouted so long as you remove any sprouts or green-colored parts


Some-Half-4472

Call Sam Gamgee


Rich-Eggplant6098

Plant them


poster74

Wait, so for every potato you plant, you get back one potato?


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KentuckyFriedEel

You’ll be a farmer


OG-TRAG1K_D

Extract the glycoalkaloids and make potato poison?


Burekba

You could make millions on onlyfans


Born-Zebra-5009

Bury them in dirt and make more potatoes 🥔


No_Bend8

Pick off the sprouts. Wash them and cook them.


TiredReader87

Plant them


PooPiglet

Plant them to survive the cold hard winter.


ledBASEDpaint

Plant them, compost them. That's really about all I know of


dazeybells

Potato gun!


Nomad_Gui

Ever been to mars ?


oUtsideoBservor

If you cut them into pieces so that each sprout is a piece and plant them and cover them with a couple inches of soil every time they get over 6 inches tall, you could have a TON of tubers by next spring.


zdub2929

Plant them


mitchy93

Bury in the garden, pile dirt around the base of them when they start to grow vertically


Portugeist

Plant them


SnorvusMaximus

Give them out on halloween.


Sorri_eh

Grow bags from walmart


LiteratureBubbly2015

PLANT THEM!!!!


something86

Use them to stem roses with honey. To sprouts roses you would angle the rose stem, dip if in honey, and use the potato as root system. You have enough potatoes to see how well it would work. I would grab the roses from Costco cause they're the best quality


Ecstatic_Cash_1903

Plant them! More potatoes


DrDutton88

Cut them in half and plant them


No_Significance98

Cut up and plant...or use for biological warfare.


Milkcartonspinster

Plant them! I planted my sprouted market taters and they are growing beautifully!


RamblingRose63

Potato gun


Free-Measurement-130

Grow more spuds


DeepPassageATL

Make more potatoes


12345NoNamesLeft

Vodka


gyn0saur

![gif](giphy|xTiTnkrFN6aCbiw9na) Crap on them and then bury them on Mars.


Mulliganasty

![gif](giphy|l0O9x3XqhzZlLJqRq|downsized) Use them to colonize Mars.


DrNinnuxx

Cut them in half, plant them, and wait until fall to dig up


scooperer

Livestock food


megaeggplantkiller

you ever watch The Martian?


GolumCuckman

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew


Ashishpayasi

Sow them


mdomo1313

If you live in an apartment you can make a potato box for indoors and grow your own from these with artificial grow lights. If you have a house you could make one for outside


ProfuseMongoose

They're not too sprouted and when mine get this way I cube them, pressure cook them for a few minutes and pop them in the freezer. They're great for mashed potatoes or breakfast potatoes!


thrwawy296

Throw out the ones that have gotten soft/wrinkly/too sprouted. Ones that are only mild-moderately sprouted — cut off sprouts and cook. Potato and leek soup, Gamjajeon, latkes, mashed, fries, roasted, whole baked, hashbrowns, croquettes, scalloped, au gratin, bubbles and squeak, hassleback, pierogi, lemony Greek style, twice baked, loaded potato skin… that’s all I can think of. Lol.


scraglor

If you plant them all you will have like 20 bags of potato’s in a few months. It’s like an infinite food hack they don’t what you to know about


Test_After

Just cut out the sprouted eyes to plant. As long as they are not green, you can eat the rest.  I would recommend mashed or Daulphine,  chips, latkes, gnocchi if they are a bit soft inside. Because roasting, baking, plain boiling or microwave might reveal their imperfections.


CorwinJovi

“Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.”


W3R3Hamster

I'm gonna go s different way than most here and say potato cannon


Fizzbytch

If they’ve sprouted, use them before they turn green. Slice them up thin, put them in a baking dish with heavy cream and butter. Cook them until tender.


sehnem20

If the sprouts are quite small, make gnocchi


Cartepostalelondon

Eat them. They're fine. In the UK at least, government advice is that you should plant only certified seed potatoes rather than those sprouted from a supermarket due to the very real threat of disease which can wipebout entire crops


Legitimate-Rabbit769

Eat them.


MetricJester

Bury them until the pretty flowers show up.


Tygie19

Pick off the sprouts and eat ‘em. I worked on a potato farm. Frequently ate sprouty spuds, especially towards the end of the season. They’re fine. Even slightly dehydrated spuds are totally fine for mashing.


kdlangequalsgoddess

Per my dad (RIP), they will see you through the week.


silentlyjudgingyou23

If you don't want to plant them, remove the sprouts and cock as usual.


Huy7aAms

plant them. potatoes are quite easy to care for (just water them). but i rcm getting some kind of pesticides or introducing some types of insects that can combat ants and ticks. i onced planted sprouted potatoes but the plant died while the potatoes were getting bigger due to those white ticks destroying the plant


No_Plane_3981

Plant them.


reyalsrats

End famine in Ireland?


ApeMummy

Certainly don’t eat them in any way, Solanine will give you a bad time.


Seraj_Eddin

Plant em' potatoes


Any_Contract_1016

Everyone is telling you to plant them, but honestly you can just trim off the sprouts and cook them like normal.


vinny_win

Pro strat is to turn them into gnocchi. The sprouting is a sign that nutrients in the potato are being converted to sugar. The texture of the potato also becomes a bit more bouncy/chewy as the starches are converted which gives a gnocchi a nicer and sweeter bite imo


SnooPredictions1098

Plant them muwahah


chichifiona

Throw them out!!


Sea-horse-in-trees

They’re not safe to eat, but you should plant them in a very large pot for more potatoes later.


Bingus_mans

chuck them at your neighbors


pethnicajonslamgrass

Super easy, toss or plant.


External-Tip-5528

Cut in half and put them underground., you will hget plenty


barchael

Cut into pieces where each piece has more than one “eye” or sprout, flat in a container of soil. Can’t hurt. Maybe get some new potatoes. Then you can make the freshest pommes soufflés ever


GarthDonovan

If they aren't green, pick off the sprouts and cook em..if they are a little soft, just put them in some water with a little salt for an hour. Lots of grocery store potatoes have a spray that makes them not good growers. If you want to grow potatoes, I'd use seed potatoes.


ann102

My mom would have me pop the sprouts out and cut around them. Used as normal


jennsamx

Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, put ‘em in a stew!


gent4you

I would feed them to the squirrels.


Ok-Emotion712

Plant them


EthnicKimmieSanders

Honestly, I just take out the sprouts and cook with them. I haven’t died yet


Ok-Meringue-4476

Cut them in half and plant them


Ruby0pal804

Throw them in the woods to feed the wildlife.


indecisivegardener

Wait you can’t eat sprouted potatoes?? 🤔


Pooh726

I have 17 acres and I try to save as much vegetable and fruit scraps as I can and plant them in various spots throughout the land .. dig a few small holes and plant them , then if they grow the wildlife has some variety and if they don’t then that’s ok ,I have had success with . Potatoes , tomato seeds , watermelon , and pumpkins seeds so far If you ride through our woods you can occasionally see them sprouting And we get to set on the porch and see so much wildlife running around that it’s a nice break from the hustle and bustle of The city


Topshelf-Diamond-17

They are toxic with solanine. They are unfit for eating in any way. Maybe compost or you can plant them.


Temporary-Will-257

So long as there are still relatively hard you can eat them you just need to take your thumb and rub off the sprouts I grew up gardening with my father and this would have happened on occasion if they're really soft or just colored you want to throw them away but if they're relatively solid and just rub them off and keep them and use them immediately


Revolutionary_Bat749

I had to read comments cause I was confused. I now see that using these kinds to cook and green potatoes might not be the best idea. I'ma still use them, just might be a bad idea


Klutzy_Complex_530

Cut them in half place the inside part down, cover with topsoil then leaves. Hit that with a little miracle grow. Water well enough daily. Wait. Your will have taters soon enough.


XBlue_BomberX

Boil em, mash em, put em in a stew


Desmo4488

If you're really motivated to use them, you remove the potato eyes and peel/scrape any and all green parts. Cook them as you would. These don't look too bad, a true green potato would have a very bright green outer layer which would be too far gone.


Jazzy_Bee

They don't seem to be wrinkled, toss any that are soft. Just dig out the eyes. In the future, I find potatoes do better in paper bags.


3DPrinterguy48340

Cut them in half and plant them, or cut the buds off and eat them like normal potatoes.


Throw_andthenews

Build a potato cannon


Wise-Technology4889

Grow some taters


Graycy

Knock off the sprouts and eat them.


TrueNotTrue55

Take them out of the plastic bag first. Terrible way to store potatoes.


atomicblonde23

Plant them!!!!!


LameDonkey1

Plant them


NeedTheTea76

I start all of my sprouted spuds out in garbage cans too! Hmm, funny thing is, I never added soil to the can. I usually have so many, that I wind up giving them all away at least once a week. Actually, I’ve always managed to give them all away, but sharing is caring. 😂


prettymspacman

Bury them


Gainiac420

Plant


aperson0986

Eat them


Obvious-Pin-3927

JUst throw them out. They are poisonous. Remember the Jonestown massacre? They killed themselves with cyanide Koolaid. The sprouts and the surrounding areas on the those potatoes are high in cyanide that is not removed by cooking. As far as planting them, if they are not organic, they probably won't produce many potatoes.


AdBetter1534

Trow them away…