Why I do not advise everyone to throw out Sprouts from sprouted Potatoes. I tell you what Benefits they can bring

I used to suffer every year when, after the new year, I made an audit in the cellar. My husband and I were checking the potatoes and halfway through the sprouts were beginning to hatch. We have a good cellar, I think. But in recent years, the winter has been similar to the European one, so such surprises began to appear often already in the winter, and not in the spring as before.

I do not like such potatoes, they become flabby and I want to throw them away. But, since this is our main food, we have to put up with it and invent new dishes where the flaws will not be so noticeable.

Sprouts can be planted: what will be the harvest

When there is not much time before planting, I root these shoots in a moist substrate. There are not so many potatoes from such bushes. Another thing is important. Not much money is spent to obtain planting material. Here are the main stages of growing it:

1. The sprouts are neatly broken off at the base of the tuber and placed in a solution of pink potassium permanganate for half an hour.
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2. At this time, you need to dilute any plant growth stimulant. If you do not need a quick result, then this stage can be skipped.
3. From potassium permanganate, the sprouts must be carefully transferred to a growth stimulator and soaked there for an hour in a dark, cool place. The sprouts should be barely moistened and should be turned over for best results.

4, The sprouts should be mixed with wet fine sawdust and placed in a plastic bag. From time to time, you need to shake it and make sure that there is always a moist environment inside.

5, After a few days, roots will appear and shoots can be transplanted into the soil.

Keep the container on the windowsill, water as needed. Transplant into the exhaust gas during planting potatoes, you can later.

But I advise you to make the distance less, since the harvest will not be very large.

Sprouted potato medicine

But what to do if the sprouts have to break off in the winter, when the seedlings are still too early to plant, I broke my head. After all, they still have to be removed, since they draw out all the nutrients from the tuber.

You will not use them for food, they are not wheat sprouts. There is solanine, a powerful poison that can have serious consequences. True, as they write, you need to eat a couple of kilograms of sprouts. But for some reason I don't want to check.

It turns out that sprout tincture is used for joint diseases. To prepare it, you will need 300 grams of sprouted material and a bottle of 0.7 liters of vodka or 500 ml of alcohol.

The sprouts do not need to be rinsed, just shake off the dust. Put them in a jar, fill with vodka, cover with a plastic lid. Place the container in a dark place, for example, under a table. Shake the tincture once a day. She is ready in a month.

For the treatment of joints, wraps and compresses are made from tincture. Drinking such alcohol is strictly prohibited, since the poison solanine is in it in a concentrated form.