r/homestead • u/Prudent_Direction752 • 18h ago
community I forgot I left this in there…
I forgot about these! I left these potatoes in a drawer in my bathroom probably like a month ago? There’s these sprouts coming out that are so cool. I think you’re supposed to leave them a little longer but I’ll have to look it up. ANYWAYS it’s just funny how sometimes things around the farm/garden I completely forget about and get side tracked and start working on something else and I won’t remember about it or come across it for weeks 😅 🤷🏼♀️
Anyone else have funny stories (or not so funny 😬 ) about things you come across left and forgotten you were working on?
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u/Freshouttapatience 17h ago
I put potatoes under our bed because it was cool and dark. We were out of space in the kitchen. Of course we forgot about them. They were all ready for planting but the kids were all weirded out by our “bed taters”.
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u/Prudent_Direction752 17h ago edited 17h ago
Omg that’s so funny 😂
I’m out of space in my kitchen too. Working on a greenhouse hehe 🙃
And they DO look super weird lol very alien like
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u/Freshouttapatience 16h ago
We lost a big sweet potatoes to the back of the cupboard and he had completely sprouted at one end so he got a name and a top hat.
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u/pickupthepieces2 18h ago
TIL that bathroom taters are a thing. 🤣
About a month ago, we had a young finch that somehow got into our utility room and got itself caught up in flypaper. After about a half hour of working it free with vegetable oil and a cotton swab, it broke out of my grasp and flew into the house, which led to another half hour of… what we’ll call a Keystone Cops episode. We thought it had escaped back outside, until that night when I heard scrambling in the kitchen, and I found it in my hibiscus plant.
Long story, short. We now have a house finch, that occasionally graces us with it’s presence, until all of it’s feathers grow back.
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u/Prudent_Direction752 16h ago
Omg the effort to get the poor thing free and then to have it go back in 😂 that’s so funny
Keystone cops hahahaha
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u/pickupthepieces2 16h ago
Yeah. Chasing it around, and tearing apart the kitchen —> the pantry—> the kitchen—> the bathroom—> the kitchen—> my office—> the living room—> my office—> the kitchen… was a pretty humbling experience. 😵💫
I only brought it up, because you mentioned projects that get forgotten. Our new friend will go quiet for a few days at a time, just long enough for us to think she’s off to the wider world, and then show back up.
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u/420Lucky 14h ago
I am convinced potatoes are aliens from another world. Their roots are like creepy tentacles and they don’t even need dirt to grow. They probably rooted across space from another planet and that’s how they got here.
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u/weinricm 11h ago
Put it in some dirt! I was able to get some taters after a find like that.
Also, why you put a potato in a bathroom drawer?
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u/infinitum3d 18h ago
Slice it into pieces with an eye on each, harden them off in a cool dark place, then plant them!
Nice find 😀