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Gardening

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htuttle

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Mon Jul 2, 2012, 04:52 PM Jul 2012

My potatoes have fruits! [View all]

My potatoes grew fruit this year -- I don't mean tubers, I mean little marble-sized fruit above the ground. I didn't even know that they could do that until I saw them on the plants and looked it up.

They look like little greenish tomatoes. Apparently, they are poisonous to humans and the potato seeds inside them 'don't breed true', which I take to mean that they could sprout any one of the various cultivars that went into the hybridized seed potatoes that grew them (which sounds kind of cool, actually).

Nonetheless, has anyone ever done anything with potato fruits or the seeds inside?

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