How odd

[bobleponge]

Bit of a puzzler, if anyone could explain??

Turning over one of the raised beds this afternoon, (carrots last year and peas the year before) when out pops a potato. There have been absolutely no spuds grown in there for at least 2 years, and I dont think there were the year before either.
How did it get there?

[annacruachan]

It's been hiding Bob - or someone jealous of your veggies is trying to spook you!

[Jeanied]

Do they self sow from tatie apples?
From experience, it is nearly impossible to dig them all up, Bob - and they pop up for years after!

[flowerofshona]

If you use homemade compost and it includes tattie peelings that could be it or squirels hiding food.

[janeyo]

potato fairy playing silly b*ggers?

[Nicos]

A few years back, either squirrels or rats dug up a pile of our JA's and stored them in a hole it'd dug on the nest plot!!
I suppose a spud is much the same sort of size???

[Flummery]

I get 'volunteers' in strange places from home made compost. You only need an eye in a peeling which gets into a bit of compost that doesn't quite heat up enough and you're off!

[Creemteez]

Le Phantom Pomme de Terre Dibber of Olde Eance strikes again!!!!!

[Snadger]

If you use homemade compost and it includes tattie peelings that could be it or squirels hiding food.

A very likely scenario!

[sweetiepea]

I've had several small potatoes 'relocated' by birds when being dug up. On a couple of occasions potatoes have grown where I've never set them, so in my case I'm sure it's down to my feathered friends.

[kernowyon]

when i was digging my spuds last year I dug up a duck egg, completely intact at first i thought it was an anaemic spud. figured it must have been an animal of sorts that put it there, so i like the idea of squirels.

? could i train one to plant them in straight rows

[Nicos]

Le Phantom Pomme de Terre Dibber of Olde Eance strikes again!!!!!

Oh noooo...quick!!!...hide!!!!

[reetnproper]

I came across a rooted peeling when I was emptying my compost bin the other week. Couldn't quite believe it - 2 inch bit of peel with 2 long, white roots.

Reet
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[enrich100]

I came across a rooted peeling when I was emptying my compost bin the other week. Couldn't quite believe it - 2 inch bit of peel with 2 long, white roots.

Reet
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Me thinks the Potato Gods are having fun at your expence

[Dianne1234567]

Same thing happened to me yesterday, dug up a couple of potatoes, but I put it down to using homemade compost.