green potatoes

[greenfingers007]

Hi all,

All i seem to do today is ask questions, sorry, anyway I harvested one of my potatoe plats last week and got a really good crop of lovely white potatoes.

We have had most of them but there were two left on the kitchen work surface for about three days, I came to them earlier and they seem to be turning green? I have heard that green potatoes can be poisonous, is it only if you pick them green or if these turn green will they be pouisonous as well?

I was hoping to store them but dont know if it would be worth it.

Many thanks for any advice.

[HeyWayne]

Poisonous, throw them away. Although, I think you'd have to eat a lot of them to do you any harm.

When storing it's important to keep them cool, ventilated and in the dark. A bit like me at work to be honest....

Edit: just found this: http://news.curiouscook.com/2006/08/...-toxic-as.html

Edit edit: and this...http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/naturaltoxins

[di]

Don't know if it would be advised by H&S brigade but if ours start to go green I just peel the green away~I'd imagine if you only left them out for a little while the green's not too deep.Our 1st year of growing Andi left almost our whole harvest of spuds in the garage to dry out~forgetting the broken window allowed all day sun to shine directly onto them!
Let me apologise now if you take my advice & spend the day tomorrow being ill but I always do it & none of us have ever suffered!

[di]

Poisonous, throw them away. Although, I think you'd have to eat a lot of them to do you any harm.

When storing it's important to keep them cool, ventilated and in the dark. A bit like me at work to be honest....

You wimp!!

[HeyWayne]

You wimp!!

Oi, we gotta be careful what we eat in our house at the minute!

[di]

Oi, we gotta be careful what we eat in our house at the minute!

What hey??Did I miss summit?!
I was awful when I was pregnant even if something was a day before best before I'd struggle to risk it!!~but now it seems I'll quite happily risk poisoning my babes with green pots!

[quark1]

If you're in any doubt - rather than dump them - why not keep them - in the light - and get a couple of free seed pots for perhaps new pots at Xmas?

[greenfingers007]

good lord I will be wating all my spuds tonight, no doubt about that. cheers everyone muchly apreciated

[cazsudz]

I've found that hoMe grown spuds go Green much quicker than supermarket ones if left in the light. Makes me suspicious about what they do to the supermarket ones. I always keep them in the dark if I don't eat a whole digging in one go. But if they do go a bit green I just peel away the green bits

caz

[Flummery]

You do need to keep your spuds in the dark. I put them in the cupboard under the stairs - it's so dark in there I can't find them again some days!

[greenfingers007]

cheers flumery.