WHO DA THUNK?

A few months ago I needed some potatoes for dinner so I reached into a 5lb bag of Idahos and pulled out....an alien growth! It was shriveled and wrinkled much like me before my nightly beauty treatment. It had these white tentacles reaching out through the net window on the bag. I hoped it was just that one but as luck would have it, the entire bag had turned into aliens. I pulled the bag out and it sat on the kitchen stool 'til I figured out what to use instead of potatoes for our dinner. Later I had a thought. I wonder what would happen if I planted these wrinkled spuds - woudl I get some potato vines similar to my sweet potato vines?
I cut them up into sections, all of which had the tentacles and put them in a baggie with some water to keep them moist. The next morning I took them out to the front of the house. This was back in May so NOTHING was in bloom and the yard looked pretty sad. I dug holes big enough to cover each piece and then basically forgot about them until in early June I saw green leaves popping up. Eureka. I grew something...but what would it look like? I have the answer for you!








The moral of this story is:

If you need a free landscaping plant with pretty pastel flowers, hide your potato sack in the pantry for a month and then plant them in your yard! I may branch out and plant the strange matter that is lurking at the bottom of my refrigerator drawers!