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Advice on potatoes

Have a go NickHave a go Nick Posts: 352
in Fruit & veg

Hi folks I've got some kestrel potatoes that ive dug them up and they have purple marks on.

are they still ok still to eat?

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,612

    Kestrel potaotoes do have violet patches on. What does it look like scrubbed?

  • tom9760tom9760 Posts: 44

    as they should be good eating too

     

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,110

    http://kestrelpotato.com/

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  • Have a go NickHave a go Nick Posts: 352

    Thanks folks 

    it just mad me worry when I saw a lot of purple on them

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,110

    Quite a few potato varieties have some purplish-pinkish colouring on them - King Edwards often do.  And then of course there are the totally pink ones, like Desirée


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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