Have you ever eaten home grown potatoes?

No but my neighbor, the cook, sometimes makes homemade frenchfries out of real potatoes (as opposed to the packaged kind).

Not grown at my own home, no. I have probably eaten potatoes that were grown at someone else's home, though.

I don't think so, but it's possible.

Why would anyone waste time and effort trying to grow their own vegetables? Potatoes wouldn't grow here anyhow. We have fruit trees we didn't plant which are a nuisance and the fruit kills the grass.

Yes...and I grew them.

Yes. There's currently a housing development over the old potato patch.

I have no idea what you mean. Potatoes grown in my state? on my land? or in my home? I have no idea if the potatoes that I eat are grown in my state...but definitely 'no' on the other two. (Not really a farm person)

No, we planted some once and they grew way too big; that was the beginning of the end for our vegetable patch

Yes, I have. Luana's father used to grow them in his backyard. They tasted like potatoes.

Not sure if this counts the farmer next door grows potatoes and we get like 150 pounds in the fall for $30 every year from him.

Yes, and I highly recommend them. You won't believe the difference between those and store bought.

No. I rarely eat white anymore, only sweet potatoes.

My parents went to a place where they went potato picking, but I wasn't there. They brought them home and I ate the mashed potatoes. I don't remember if I tasted a difference.

How do you exactly define home grown?

My aunt's neighbours have a potato farm, but it's a larger scale production. It's still a family owned farm. Anyway, I've eaten at the home a few times.

My grandparents are farmers and I'm sure I've eaten potatoes they've grown.

But no, I've never eaten the potatoes that I've grown myself.

No, but I've grown them before.

!! I just discovered last night that I've regularly been eating potentially fatal doses of green potatoes.

Apparently potatos, if left in the sun, produce both a green chlorophyl skin and a natural nerve-gas type pesticide called solanine, which is a aceylcholinesterase inhibiter. It prevents necessary destruction of acetylcholine used for nervous system communications, resulting in burnout, vomiting, headaches, dizziness, paralysis, bradycardia, diaphragm restriction, and death.

Stores can't sell more than 0.2mg solanine per 100gm (4 oz.), but levels can climb to 280mg/100gm in the sun, roughly the 50% fatal amount.

Other nightshades, tomatos, peppers, tobacco - share this solanine/AChE-inhibitor issue, though not nearly to the same degree. If you smoke and live on potatoes wih salsa, and live in a paralysis daze, consider a change in diet as I am.

There are like 4000 breeds of potatos.

Well that's good. Read my comment above. Sweet potatos don't have the same danger. Green potatos killed many in WW2. I'm guessing after that an info campaign to keep potatoes in the dark was successful. I had heard that as a kid, and that the eyes were dangerous, but I thought it was just an aesthetic thing and a wives tale. I suppose no one stores pantry amounts of anything today to be worth keeping up an info campaign. It sure wouldn't hurt to at least have a descriptive care warning sign on them at the grocery though.

Oh yeah, more info. The excretion half-life of solanine is about two months, so a steady diet is far worse even.

dang

Yeah, lots of breeds of potato.

Thank you for the information. I'm trying so hard to watch my diet. I'm trying, to follow the Blood type diet...not strictly however, but gauge most my meals around it.

The best diet I can recommend is to follow your intuition about what is healthy, what your body needs, and what a food will do for or to you. You've been around long enough. Deep down you already know whether a sweet potato, egg, or slice of water melon is what you need most at the moment. Deep down I knew eating those green potatoes was a grim thing to do, but was lazy and desperate and thus rationalized that I was being practical over an inconsequential matter.

You might also use the native sorcerer perspective that plants teach. Translated to diet that means that your choice of diet is a choice of who to become, rather than falling back on the habitual yearnings of what you have become already. By deep down, I don't mean the sugar cravings of one acclimated to too much sugar, but a deeper intuitive wisdom. The opposite is being oblivious, not even sure if you're hungry or not. If you can get in touch with the difference between those two, you are on the way toward finding your inner diet guide. It is much like cravings, for some red veggie for instance. You are an orange person (squash and such) and are going to starve on pure greens, never becoming a sprightly green sprout type. You may have had that choice when you were ten, but not now. You bake everything into starches fats and sugars, no matter what it starts as. As such you have plenty of steady reserve but aren't fresh and nimble. Every food and cooking process is a metaphysical ingredient to your body. It's visible; you can feel it. All you have to do is pay deep attention to what it is you are eating. It's my belief that done deeply enough, we can instruct our body how to metabolize foods.

I'm presently writing a commentary on the Chinese Five Element Theory. Our body will naturally crave what we need directly or indirectly. I know you know what I mean. It's the yin/yang, or acid/alkaline. Our bodies want to survive.

Take care, I wish you well. I wish everyone a lovely holiday season. God bless!

I know I have but I don't remember anything spectacular about the experience. I have also had fresh corn and I thought it was great! Also, ate peas right out of the pod, and carrots right out of the dirt. Great flavor!

We used to visit and stay with my Grandma for weekends and weeks during the summer.

She let us plant potatoes in her flowerbed and when we came back up another time, we'd dig them up and eat them.