planting potatoes that have sprouted

[lakota]

I found a bag of potatoes in the pantry that have sprouted. Has anyone had luck planting store bought potatoes like this?

[blind ear]

I have done it a few times with some forgotten potatoes and made a few. I just put them in some real good composted soil and kept them watered as they grew. ear

[ironglow]

  Plant them...if your zone is OK with planting them now.  Be sure to cut the spuds into chunks, leaving no more than 3 eyes on each piece.  Even potato peelings will grow a new crop..but the rest of the potato is actually the "food reserve" for the newly started plant.

[hillbill]

ive even planted store bought taters that have not sprouted with good luck. produce potatoes at wal mart are way cheaper than the seed taters in the farm and garden stores around here.

[ironglow]

  Store taters would be good, since they would likely be only a year or so from certified.  I would wait for them to show a tiny sprout before planting..some are treated to prevent sprouting.

[stimpylu32]

I have about 20 plants growing now from store taters ( about 1/4 of the garden ) , their about 2 feet tall or so , I just keep adding soil around them ( Hilling ) if the bottom half works out as well as the tops I should have quite a few this year .
 
Next to plant is Toe- Maters , Peppers and Beans , the leafy greens are doing well too , now to just keep the dandi-lions out of the mix . 
 
stimpy

[charles p]

My friend does it all the time.  Our local grocer purchases the lowest grade of veggie available.  His taters are always sprouting on the shelf.  They do just fine.  Cut them into small piece.  I recently read that a large piece allows the new plant to feed off the flesh of the planted piece rather than send out roots in search of nutrients.  Last year my wife had some small reds and planted them whole.  When we dug her bed, the seed was still there and very few new potatoes.

[chefjeff]

Yeah,it will work.Break off the sprouts,cut the taters in golf ball size pieces and let them hash off(partially dry).I dust mine with baby powder to help. Its a Jerry Baker thing.Been doing this for years.

[Ranger J]

I planted two short rows of them this year and they seem to be doing alright except for the ones the armadilla dug out while looking for bugs.  In the past this kind of planting has not do as well as 'seed potatoes'.  Beats throwing them away though.

RJ

[lakota]

I put the taters in the ground 2 weeks ago this coming Saturday. Slowly but surely they are starting to pop up here and there.

[keith44]

in April, I planted six store bought taters that had sprouted.  Two of them just rotted, of the four that grew, none put out a healthy looking plant.  When the tops died last week, I dug them up.  The yield was an average of four medium to small (small = golfball size, med = about 2 1/2 times the small size) per plant.  So nothing to brag about, but better than just throwing away and getting nothing.

[lakota]

Mine are showing vigorous growth. All but 3 of the ones I planted have come up.

[Bob Riebe]

Some potatoes sold in stores are coated with a solution to prevent sprouting which will either do as said, or if they do sprout will produce few if any potatoes.
How a potato, including genuine seed potatoes, act depends on the variety one plants. I planted about a dozen varieties, almost all on April 1st this year including left over eating potatoes and all have done well.
They are at different stages of development and size.


The one stubborn variety is called Peter Wilcox and they, are pretty much just sitting there, hinting they might sprout out greens if they get a  hankering to.
I dug down to them last week and they are just sitting there, not rotting but not much more, although one potato despite not having even sent up any greens had already produced one small potato.
OF the four I planted one is now above ground but I am not sure what I will do with the other three. Maybe dig them up and put them out to chit, or put then in the fridge for a day or two to see if the need that.
As hard as they still are I could just peel them and eat them also.


I put some of the store bought left over eaters in bare spots in the  rose garden as I am not sure if I am going to reduce down to just one rose garden but anyway, the soil in that garden, over the years amounts to the best one can possibly make due to amendments and special soil used to plants roses.
The potatoes there are dong EXTREMELY well, so if your sig. other ever has a bare spot in her rose garden, slip a tater in there when she is not looking.