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Mutant Potatoes

Posted on October 23, 2024

Halloween time seems like a good time to share my mutant potatoes. These strange and scary potatoes were grown in my garden this year. I was so surprised when I dug them up and discovered how they had grown into these strange-looking shapes.

Mutant looking potatoes

I found out that these potatoes were stressed and that is what caused them to grow so strangely. There is a good article here about the reasons and how to avoid this from happening. Apparently lack of rain, hot weather and not enough watering are the main reasons that you can end up with potatoes looking like these do.

When this happens your harvest will be much smaller as the potatoes didn’t grow and spread out like they should have. When the potatoes are dry for too long, it causes the tubers to stop growing. They do taste fine though and are okay to eat. I just cut them up and cooked them in my cast iron skillet for breakfast. They cooked up fine and tasted great.

I learned a valuable lesson. When it’s a hot and dry summer like it was this year, I need to water the potatoes more and for a longer time. They just needed more water.




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