Potatoes

[tjg911]

Originally Posted by Tracydr

Are the potatoes supposed to have little white balls on the stems? I assume those will develop a skin and become the potatoes as they mature? I just pulled back some straw on my potatoes today and saw a few little white marbles.
My first baby potatoes.
Now if I can keep them alive for another month in the heat.

i have seen that often on the roots or at the base of the plant where it is underground when digging them and assume they are tiny potatoes. by then the plants are dying back so they won't develop had i left the plants along. i don't recall ever seeing what you describe above the soil line. i'm not an expert on potatoes having grown them just 4 or 5 seasons but that was always what i thought.

tom