Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Potato fruit

I was a bit surprised to find this afternoon that some of my potato plants had small, green tomato-style fruit on them. (Although it made a kind of sense because potatoes and tomatoes are related).

Apparently this isn't unusual in certain varieties, the fruit contain the potato seeds, though they're seldom used to grow potatoes from because it's easier to do it from the tubers.

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