redhotchick Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Please can anyone help. What looked like potatoes sprung up of their own accord in a corner of the garden. The leaf looks like potato and the flower looked like potato, (pink and yellow) but now it is producing trusses of what look like tomato How odd. The fruits are green right now. I know tomato and potato are related, are they not also related to deadly nightshade? What am I growing?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperman Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Rub the leaves, tomato plants smell quite strong, potatoes don't. Kev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 They are probably potatoes the fruits are poisonous because both those and tomatoes are the deadly nightshade family but don't ask me why tomatoes aren't poisonous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redhotchick Posted July 6, 2008 Author Share Posted July 6, 2008 The leaves don't smell like tomato plants. I'm definitely leaning towards them being potato, it's just I've never seen fruits before. Should I remove them do you think? - to encourage tuber growth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 It's a potato that has fruited - some varieties do this more than others. Remove them so that the spuds can develop - you will probably find you can get a little treasure from the plant when you dig it up. Don't eat the potato fruits though. My mum had a handful from her rogue potato - it was enough for a meal, so a nice surprise. We have one growing where OH tipped out the compost from when we grew some spuds in pots last year - it only needs one little potato - or even peelings can provide plants - I had some growing underneath my runner beans a few years ago. Now I don't put peelings in the compost at all because of the little plants that I had to remove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
