I had a different though related experience this year. Given the lock down I was not going to walk into a store just to buy a bag of seed potatoes and the prices demanded for them on the web were outrageous. I thought I would go without potatoes this year until I saw some volunteer sprouts coming up from the area in my garden where they grew last year. I carefully dug them up--there lots of them--and planted them in the area I prepared for this season's potatoes. When I could I kept them attached to a piece of tuber. I did not know they were independent plants as described in this thread. Others were just sprouts long detached from the potato. So far they are all going great guns. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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