You plant pansies and you get potatoes.
By Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (13617)
Ireland
April 29, 2025 10:23am CST
The photo above depicts the reason for my current pondering. Among my yellow pansies blooming away merrily in a tub and annoying nobody, a potato plant has sprouted. This can happen if you don’t lift all the previous year’s crop of potatoes, but this is a new pot with new compost. I planted pansies and I’ve got potatoes. Does this kind of thing happen to you?
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@1creekgirl (43570)
• United States
29 Apr
I can't say that's ever happened to me. Will you get some potatoes from the pansies?
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@xFiacre (13617)
• Ireland
29 Apr
@1creekgirl Oh there’ll be potatoes ok, just not in the right place.
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@Traceyjayne (2008)
• United Kingdom
29 Apr
this is exactly the sort of thing that happens to me.
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@xFiacre (13617)
• Ireland
29 Apr
@traceyjayne It’s so good to know that it’s not just me!! I don’t feel just so bad now.
@kaylachan (77595)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
29 Apr
It could. Hasn't happened to me personally, though.
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@JudyEv (353594)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Apr
That's does seem very odd. Maybe you're just naturally clever. They don't belong to the same family, do they, and have maybe 'thrown back'?
@LindaOHio (188873)
• United States
30 Apr
Interesting. I'm not into gardening; so this hasn't happened to me.
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