Gardening

They "volunteer" every year,
undoubtedly from potatoes that go bad before we eat them and wind up in the compost heap.
We are not scientific with our compost.
Everything organic that the chickens don't eat,
along with leaves, weeds, chicken coop clean outs, etc goes on the pile.

The only things we do NOT compost are Tomato Plants that show any signs of fungal or virus disease or blight, or anything else that might be carrying any virus or disease.


(They are usually much fuller than this photo)
We use three 4'X4' bins,
and rotate the active bin every 9 months or so.
We don't check the temp, or turn them.... just give them some water if they look dry,
and let nature do its thing. If the active bin starts to smell bad or attract flies,
we'll shove in some dirt.

We empty out the oldest bin and dress our raised beds every Spring.
This has worked well so far for us.

Invariably, we will have some potatoes sprout every Summer in the active bin,
but we have never eaten them.
I suppose they would be OK.