Yes! Oh, Yes! A hundred times yes. :)
Planting potato seed is a great way to select new varieties for your specific area. You can select for instance: Cold Tolerance, Yield, Taste, Color, etc. And it's also a lot of fun!
See: "Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving" by Carol Deppe.
Spark
yes, they are fruits. I think if you plant them you will get plants with small potatoes. Those, if used as seed potatoes, will give you regular potatoes. But I am not sure and someone may correct me.
If you like greens, you have lots of choices. In the last 3 weeks I planted tatsoi, arugula, lettuce, spinach, chicory, and kale. Pac choi, broccoli rabe (rapini), mustard, would be good choices too. It is getting a bit late to plant carrots, chard, peas or short season cabbages (including broccoli), at least in SE MI.
snipped-for-privacy@my-deja.com (simy1) expounded:
Yes, they're fruits, but if you take the seeds out and plant them, you'll get baby potato plants just like if you plant tomato seeds. Seed potatoes are small potatoes, or pieces cut from larger ones.
The message from "Betsy" contains these words:
The seeds inside them can.
Potato fruits are poisonous btw. Don't try eating them or feed them to animals.
Janet
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