Hi fellow fruit lovers,
Ten years ago, when i was a young man getting into to love of gardening, i planted few left over potatoes on a remote patch in my moms garden, and never digged them up. No clue what varietys i planted. it seeded almost every year and probably crossed numerous times. Out of interest, every year i would digg a feww up, they got smaller every year. The one year my mom made an effort to clean the patch up, destroying everything(she thought), a little remained, now, for the last to years, im digging actually great potatoes, and the most briliant thing of its it that out of i gues 8 plants, six of them produce creamy purple potatoes. Im 10000% sure i didnt put those in the ground, so im guessing it got polinated somehow by a purple one. I took the seeds last summer and am trying to grow them( anyone good tips on germinating them? I guess high humidity which i dont have, i currently got one seedling out of it wich im growing in my 50 gallon balcony bed. Im intending to post the progress of this seedling here and in few months find out if it produces the purple taters again. Cheers
I had one purple potato seed I planted out with a mix of other fingerlings and generic potatoes from the kitchen in the pot next to them. The sprout from the Purple potato came up dark black purple.
The girls picked them out. Devanverkciderin brand or something. Very cheap. But their bag or website do not say what the varieties are, But they are growing well.
I know the girls are going to dig these up. But I might buy a couple more bags and let them go feral to see what happens.
She doesnt grow well, not enough hours of sun yet on the balcony so the plant it stretching and stretching, well toro it appears my stem is somewhat the same colour as the potato im hoping it produces, a creamy purple stem.
I will get a picture today. The purple one is a dark purple on everything; medium purple might be more correct.
I’ve got a bit of a similar story about volunteer potatoes. My better half usually gets the task of peeling potatoes for dinner and she always uses a paring knife to peel them. I always use a potato peeler as I find cutting the skin off quite wasteful as it usually leaves a fair bit of potato attached.
We always throw the potato peelings in the compost pile all year long. Come the spring there was a fair bit of undecayed potato peelings still left in the compost pile. I figured who cares, most of the pile was well composted, so I mixed it all into our vegatable garden. We now have potato plants growing all through the garden even though we never actually planted any potatoes in the garden.
I much prefer planting potatoes in grow bags as I hate digging them out of the ground. Looks like there’s going to be a lot of unplanned digging this year. 
Little update, it getting crowded around the tater, i dont expect any proper harvest from it but just out of Curiosity i hope to find a little potato reveiling that purple cream flesh. Its growing together with a bunch of stuff:
-Ashe county pimento peppers
-datterino from Puglia
-Slovenian blackbean
-Boulanger eggplants
-catnipp for propagation
- Achillea/Yarrow seedlings for color selection and propagation.
-sweet potato
-peony from seed
-purple sprouting broccoli
I guess i was curious what is the limit of growing space( well exceeded i know😛). I made this structure from 2 big europallets. I made it extra deep, it fitted 200 liters of potting soil. Yet the potato seedling hangs/grows in front of it all so gets all the sun it can get, which still isnt sufficient. I actually like the looks of it hanging outside and am considering growing a potato in a hanging basket, for purely ornamental purposes!
