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1:30 pm
October 18, 2010
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Didn't know the actual video would come up on here…sorry.
10:54 am
December 27, 2008
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Don't cure them on top of the soil in the sun. Light on potatoes is what turns them green and the green sections are full of solanine, a poison. Even storing them in a lighted room will turn them green over time, making them unedible. Solanine is found in the green parts of all nightshade plants and is a nerve toxin.
http://www.snopes.com/food/ing…..potato.asp
Cure them in the dark, or cover completely with newspaper if you have no dark place to cure them. Do not let them sit in the sun. Even leaving them in the sun while digging can make them turn green and inedible.
7:12 pm
January 17, 2011
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If you peel off the green they are just fine! And besides that, the amount of the "posion" you would have to injest to cause a problem is pretty high. I don't remember the exact figure but way more than you could get from a few potatoes!
9:23 am
December 27, 2008
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You can cut all the green off, of course. I had all the potatos turn green one year when I just left them out all day while digging, before I learned to cover them. Frustrating! I have had entire potatoes turn green sitting on the table in the light all day also. I just keep them covered with cardboard or newspapers while I am digging them and while they are drying and store closed in a cardboard box.
Green potatoes are not good for you so why do it? It's simple enough to keep them covered or stored in the dark.
10:39 am
February 22, 2010
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Potatoes are from the nightshade family…I remember my dad telling me that food from the nightshade family wasn't good for people with arthritis. He said he wasn't going to give up potatoes though!
6:51 pm
May 16, 2011
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Can potatoes be grown in a container? My garden is quite small but I would like to try growing some just for fun.
11:07 am
April 8, 2010
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You can definetly grow potatoes in containers. We have used the 'square foot gardening' method for it.
You need to have a deep container or barrel for potatoes. You plant the potatoes at the very bottom of the container, covered with soil as usual. However, when the leaves come up, you keep adding more soil, this makes the potatoe plant grow longer and produce more potatoes.
10:45 pm
May 16, 2011
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pdelainey thank you for sharing your expertise. Can't wait to try this method. By the way, I've just received my second seed catalog in the mail today. What fun to study the pages and try to decide what to plant in a limited space. Looking forward to the planting season!
2:06 pm
April 1, 2009
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After reading some of the information on this thread, I am concerened about of the potatoes I have purchased in the past, I had no idea that potatoes whose shins were green could be bad for us, this is probably a sislly qusetion, but from time ti time, my potatoes get sprouts on them, I usally cut them off and use the potato, should I not be doing this? It seems like they sprout quickly after purchase.
2:39 pm
February 10, 2009
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I'm not claiming to be an expert, but I sure have always done the same thing with cutting the sprouts and haven't heard of any ill effects from others either.
I've known that the green skins (which develop from being exposed to light) are bad for us and have both been careful about storing them properly and also careful if they do turn green for whatever reason, I only use them in ways where they are peeled first, and I peel them a bit thicker than normal.
That being said, if you wind up eating some of the green skins on occasion, I don't think it's going to kill you. I wouldn't want to make a habit of it, but I don't live in fear of it either.
3:29 pm
April 1, 2009
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Thank you Debbie, I feel better now, it seems we fear so many things today, I sure dont want to fear my potatoes! 
I have had bags with green potatoes, and never new why they were green, I just thought they were harvested too soon, but I did peel them thick and use them. I alway learn someting new at CITR. Thank you again
7:42 am
October 19, 2011
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Ingesting enough green potatoes can make you seriously ill…
However…eating a tator with some green on it…can give you a tummy ache…
one of those ones where you THINK…you have only over eaten..No long lasting side effects…maybe some embarrassing ones though 
We raise about 400 pounds per year…last season we had 6 35 foot rows…that's a bunch of tators folks 
we harvest them…place them in the corn crib to dry the skins then on to storage…
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