Okay, I still need to catch up on my garden analysis drafts, but I had to do an extra gardening post!
We had the one purple potato from last year that showed up and grew quite large. I left it be, and for the first time, I had a potato that produced “fruit”.
I collected these after the plant was finally killed off by frost.
We’re having to rearrange our living room (the cat free zone) so we can do our Christmas celebrations in there. I needed to move out the variety of seeds and seed pods, plus these potato berries, there were on a screen to dry. These berries didn’t really dry, though the most frost damaged ones did start to get wrinkled and a few had to be tossed when they started to mold.
Today, I decided to see what they looked like inside.
They actually do have similarities to tomatoes! Really small, round, hard tomatoes. 😄 I was able to squeeze seeds out of quite a few of them. I didn’t collect seeds from all of them, as they have so many, it wasn’t long before my little plate was covered.
I have no idea if these had enough time to mature into viable seeds. From what I’ve read, each seed is genetically different from the parent plant. Since these came from All Blue purple potatoes, I would expect them to still be purple potatoes, but who knows? I’d have to try growing some! I’ve got the collected seeds drying on the plate for now. The rest went into the compost bucket. I suppose it’s possible some of those might germinate in the spring.
It should be interesting to find a quiet corner of the garden somewhere, and give some of these a try!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 
Very interested in this potential! Your post from a while back was the first I’d heard of it, thanks, going to try it myself.
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