Potatoes are full of Potassium, Vitamins C and Iron and they are good to eat. But they also have many other uses around the home and garden.
- Treat warts: Common warts can be treated by rubbing them with a piece of raw potato. This should be done every day until the wart has gone.
- Soothe burns: Gently touch a minor burn with a piece of cut potato. It will soothe it and take out the sting.
- Remove berry stains: If your finger gets berry stains, a piece of raw potato rubbed on to them will take off the stain. If the problem is really bad, dip the cut potato into lemon juice before using it.
- Remove salt from soups: If you are making a soups and stews and find that you have added a little too much salt, add a cut up potato and it will absorb the salt.
- Chopped potatoes make good compost for plants. Chop the potato up and put it into the hole before you plant flowering plants like geraniums and bizzie lizzies.
- Clean silverware by soaking them for an hour in water that you have boiled your potatoes in.
- Potatoes hold the heat and the cold very well, so they make good compresses. Heat a potato; warp it in a cloth and use as a hot compress. Do the same with a cold one that has been in the freezer.
- Take a little mashed potato and add lemon juice and a teaspoon of milk. This makes a great face mask which you can put on, leave for 20 minutes and then rinse off. Your skin will feel great.
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