Last summer I wanted to grow purple potatoes, but I waited too late in the season to start looking for them. Long story short, I ended up finding some purple potatoes in the grocery store as part of a medley and tried to sprout them. Everything I did failed. Leaving them out on the table did nothing. putting them in peat, nothing. Soil, nothing. Toothpicked in water, nothing. Every one rotted before they sprouted.

Week before last I bought the same potato medley pack to eat, set them out on the table, and over one weekend the stupid purple ones were sprouting. In the middle of November. You have got to be kidding me.

Anyway, I let them sprout out some and put them in small starter pots. They grew well, and I just went to transplant them into large plastic trash cans with grow lights in an attempt to grow them indoors during the winter. Dang, it had been maybe 2 weeks in the soil and those things were already almost rootbound. Never seen something grow roots that fast before!