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Montrose Girl
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm
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Laurie
Montrose
CO
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 Posted - Mar 15 2010 : 3:32:18 PM
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Ok, I just got home after being gone for 10 weeks and all my potatoes sprouted. They were even in the coolest room in the house in the dark, so all the sprouts are white. Can I cut the sprouts and still transplant? Can I cut and eat? The potatoes are still rigid. ***Sigh**. being gone can be a pain. thanks, Laurie
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phonelady
True Blue Farmgirl
323 Posts
Carla
Loveland
Colorado
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Posted - Mar 15 2010 : 6:51:43 PM
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Nope, cant cut, the energy is going up into the sprouts.
Wouldn't eat them if they show any kind of green, they'ed give you a bad time.
Can you plant them in some large tubs till the ground gets warmer?
Mother's day is about when we plant warm weather plants here.
Carla
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Mar 16 2010 : 11:00:44 AM
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Potatoes are a cool weather crop and won't have trouble with frost (on the plant growth) because, well, the tuber is underground and you keep mounding the dirt around them as they grow from the furrow. I don't see why you can't dig a furrow now, plant them and see what happens.
Can't eat them, though. Yuck 
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Montrose Girl
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm
1360 Posts
Laurie
Montrose
CO
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Posted - Mar 17 2010 : 07:01:31 AM
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I guess i have nothing to loose at this point. I'm more disappointed they didn't store better. Thanks
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
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Posted - Mar 17 2010 : 09:08:01 AM
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Mine sprouted before I got to them last year too and I went ahead and planted them - they were just fine. I read somewhere that potatoes sprout according to where spring comes where they came from (I think it was in A,V,M) so even if you store them the very best way they are already programmed to sprout at a certain time. Good luck, you should be okay!!
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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