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Not a bad haul from one tub!
From Pot to Pan (all scrubbed up and meticulously shared)
It must be great to actually eat the food you grow.

At least if you die of food poisoning it would be all your own fault.

They look very nice in the pans and are the leaves for decoration. I had heard potato leaves were horribly poisonous.
:D they are mint leaves from the mint plant.

You can get potato poisoning it's true if you eat the green bits or even a potato that did have a few green bits before you cut them off.  I think Eccles had it once and it was very nasty.

Toxicity

Potatoes contain toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine. This poison affects the nervous system, causing weakness and confusion.

.... Cooking at high temperatures (over 170 °C or 340 °F) partly destroys these.

.... Glycoalkaloids may cause headaches, diarrhea, cramps, and in severe cases coma and death.



the State Extension Specialist for Food Safety at the University of Missouri notes that no reported cases of potato-source solanine poisoning have occurred in the U.S. in the last 50 years


So if only Eccles had quickly travelled to the US in the throes of his potato sickness, he would have become a medical notoriety and probably been on TV.
Your potato basket is not-quite-but-almost a trug, which I am desirous of mentioning just because it is such a good word and one that I have never before had occasion to use  :)

Fine-looking potatoes you have there!
Fortunately my experience was relatively short-lived and mild. I didn't have stomach cramps, diarrhia, coma or death, but I did have a headache, felt nauseous and queasy. The potatoes themselves had no noticeable greening on them at all, and it is my belief that some of the more recent varieties are more susceptible to fluorescent lighting than others.
I now tend to stick to well known established varieties such as king edward, cara, maris piper, and estima.
Only King Edwards count as real potatoes.
They make great mash.
Indeed. Mash from other potatoes always has lumps.

In the olden days my mummy used to buy King Edwards in a big hundred weight sack (the paper sort you were expected to hide in to protect you from nuclear explosions) and keep them under the stairs.  

These days they want to sell one potato at a time and would look at you as though you were crazy if you asked them to deliver a sack of potatoes to your house.
Lidl ran out of Maris Piper and I got a bag of a variety called Marfoma. They're edible, just, but for anyone with any taste-buds at all they should be avoided.
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