Gardening tips to keep in mind...

"Like other flowering plants, a potato plant produce blooms in order to reproduce. If pollinated, potato blossoms will grow small green fruits that resemble underripe cherry tomatoes. Each potato berry contains around 300 seeds that can technically be planted and used to grow more potato plants.

"However, these green potato berries contain solanine, which is very toxic even in small amounts, and they should not be eaten. And most potatoes are grown from seed potatoes, a potato that has been grown to be replanted to produce a potato crop."

https://www.thespruce.com/potato-flower-8672510

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Planted my little "satanic" potatoes today (along with some other ones that were raring to go). After trying to grow bigger white potatoes and little red potatoes in containers last year, I had a lot more luck with the little red potatoes (which are my favorites). So I saved some of the ones that were too small to eat and planted some of them about 4 weeks ago in big containers. I planted some last week that are just starting to leaf out, and then a bunch more today.

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Well well, I've never grown potato fruits before...they look like baby chits!

...and indeed I didn't mean to grow these!

PS the largest potato from this plant was enormous!

I opened a cabinet in the kitchen that I clearly don't use very often and rediscovered a bag of potatoes I had purchased back in like, November last year. Does this count as successful gardening? 😂 #oops #growingPotatoes #kitchenSurprise #gardening