January 6 - Growing a potato

I bought fresh potatoes at the local farm stand this summer and they were heavenly.   So I want to grow potatoes.

Recently, I opened my bag of potatoes and found one had sprouted.  Not just a little eye, but an actual green leaf.  So I decided to plant it in a pot and see what happens. (That brown lump you see is a rock, not a potato.  I put rocks in pots to keep the cats (and squirrels) from digging.  The potato is under the soil.)

 I read up on it and it seems that they are one of the most disease prone crop we have.  This means they are treated heavily with fungicides.  I have also read that if you grow them in your home garden, and they develop a disease, there is a fear it will mutate into a new contagion and get into the commercial crop.  So they really don't want people messing with potatoes.

I promise to be careful, Girl Scout's honor, if I eventually have a garden.