if you plant a potato from the supermarket, will it grow potatos or do you need a seed potato????

Question

It was sprouted so we planted it and now the plants about 2 foot high. is there potatos under it or not????

Answer 1

If you buy potatos that have shoots on these will grow and produce potatos yes there will be quite a number of spuds under it wai ttill the plant has flowered then dig them up

Answer 2

I've never tried planting the supermarket potatoes, but if it sprouted, and you've planted it, just wait until the little flowers appear, that will mean that little potatoes started growing. My grandpa was planting potatoes every year around the beginning of April, and first young potatoes were appearing around July.

Answer 3

You can plant store potatoes. They aren't always optimal for growing in a particular situation like seed potatoes would be, but they obviously grow. However, for a better harvest, you should have been mounding around the base as it grew taller.

Answer 4

you will have potatoes there but you must wait until the plant dies.
normally you need to mound the dirt up high & plant in that ...slice off pieces of potato with the eye & plant those as well as its cheaper than using the whole potato
good gardening to you

Answer 5

We grow our potatoes every year from the ones we buy at the store we just cut them in half and plant it works for us

Answer 6

Yes, I believe that is how potato plants are grown, and you might have some potatoes underneath. Have fun!

Answer 7

According to this website, probably not. Then again, you did start with seed pieces, and if you're not suspicious of the potatoes as the site recommends you should be of them, maybe they are harvestable.

Good luck.

Answer 8

plant that sucker.. you can also cut it into two halves.... that works good.. any smaller and it doesnt go as good. Just plant a potato and go,

Answer 9

if you want more than one potatoe you need to cu it into chunks w/ an eye ib each piece before you plant it.