I had a volunteer potato in my garden this year so I just let it do its thing (Completely overshadowing all of my corn but oh well). It flowered and now suddenly there are... berries??? I've literally never seen these before, what are these?

  • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    Those are the tomato part of the potato plant. They're poisonous because both tomatoes and potatoes are nightshades. You can make those grow into tomatoes or egg plants if you do a few hundred years of selective breeding.

    • Zoift [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      You can make those grow into tomatoes or egg plants if you do a few hundred years of selective breeding.

      You can graft tomatos & eggplants to potato rootstock, they take very readily, but it cuts production on both, and i wouldnt recommend a cherry tomato graft for hopefully obvious reasons.