Moving vegetables growing out of compost pile

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?

Kabocha transplanted. We'll see how they do. They were pretty leggy since they had to grow through the compost.

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.