Identification: Potato like things

I found a few pototo looking things in the garden on top of the soil today, this is a new garden to me and I am still discovering all kinds of things. I'm pretty sure they didn't bloom in the spring, they are not like any bulb or corm I am aware of, no leaves. The largest one had a tuft of roots growing into the soil and they are the firmness of a pototo that has been kept in the fridge too long, going a bit soft. They smell kind of earthy but they have been outside for a long time suspect. Any ideas?

 

Can you post us a pic? They could be spuds or a number of other edible and inedible tubers.

 

There seems to be smaller ones growing at the base near the roots of the largest one.

I wonder if they are mushrooms or something?

They aren't potatoes for sure, my grandad used to grow those, these were right on the soil surface.

 

Look like puffballs.

 

I'm with tipularia. They look like puffball mushrooms.

 

Are they edible? What should I do with them? Put them back or eat them?

 

Puffball mushrooms for me, too. I'd put them back, because I don't know if those ones are edible or not.

 

Thanks for the feedback everyone, I had no idea they would be a mushroom, I'll try over there.

 

Scleroderma bovista, an inedible puffball.

Regards,

Harri Harmaja
http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/harmaja/vasculars.htm