Emma the Space Gardener 🌿🚀3d ago

Don Pettit has shared some photos of his latest (2025) unorthodox space plant experiment - Spudnik-1! It has provoked some unhinged reactions from people who don't know what a sprouting potato looks like!!!

Image credits: Don Pettit/NASA. More details on the blog: https://spacebotany.uk/blog/spudnik-1-don-pettit-reveals-his-iss-potato-experiment/

#astrobotany #SpacePlants

Show threadOverclocked Andy3d ago
@OrbitalGardens sprouting potatoes are eldritch beasties.
I don’t know of many other plants so eager to get going, or so bloody persistent.
They are the horticultural equivalent of glitter, once you’ve planted potatoes you always have potatoes.
Show threadEmma the Space Gardener 🌿🚀3d ago
@OverclockedAndy Yeah - I grassed over my veg beds, and they still come up through the turf.
Show threadOverclocked Andy
@OrbitalGardens we once had a volunteer I couldn’t find. I dug 2 feet down & nothing but every year there was a sprouting in the same place.
However I really like eating potatoes in all formats so I tolerate them.
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