These little beauties appeared on my potato plants recently. I was puzzled and thought that my potatoes and tomatoes had cross pollinated, they are after all from the same family. However after a little research on the wonderful world wide web, I discovered that these fruit are actually the fruit of the potato plant.
Good job we didn’t save them to eat though, it turns out that they are highly poisonous!
Yukon gold potatoes are the most likely to produce fruit out of the potato varieties, guess which variety I’m growing?
As it turns out, I could have saved the seed from the fruit to grow more potatoes, ooops! I have them composted now and it’s a bit late to go fishing them out!
You can read more about the experimental growing of potatoes from seed here
