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Today on my morning garden rounds I noticed potatoes and kabocha squash growing out of my compost heap. It's no big surprise I guess, lot's of nutrients there.

But the kabocha I tried to plant in the garden haven't grown yet, hah!

I'm going to try to carefully transplant them into the garden. I expect that to work somewhat well with the squash, but can you transplant potatoes?
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Kabocha transplanted. We'll see how they do. They were pretty leggy since they had to grow through the compost.
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Yeah, potatoes can be transplanted. If the tops don't survive they'll just grow back from the root. Might mean a smaller crop at the end of the season, but it's one more potato than you would have had in the first place.
 
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