Broadway
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Morning Folks
Looks like I shouldn't have kept these in a closed box!
Am I right in saying I can break these off and let them start again?
Regards..........Danny 
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If you leave them you will have to be very careful when planting.
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Much better on a windowsill somewhere cold like the garage.
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When do you guys chit your second earlies? It's years since I grew potatoes, and there seems to be a lot of conflicting advice online.
I'll be growing them in bags, if it makes any difference, and I'm in East Anglia, so we don't often get frosts after 31st March - and I can always bring them into the conservatory if we have a cold snap.
How much veg and wildlife can I pack into a 6m x 8m garden in suburban Cambridge? Let’s find out!
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If you have your seed potatoes and have somewhere cool and light to chit them I would start them now. Having said that mine are still in a box in a cold garage. Im waiting for the arctic temps to move on.
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They will be OK if you leave them. But put them somewhere light now and be careful when planting.
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(13-02-2021, 01:55 PM)mcdood Wrote: If you have your seed potatoes and have somewhere cool and light to chit them I would start them now. Having said that mine are still in a box in a cold garage. Im waiting for the arctic temps to move on.
Thanks! My problem is finding somewhere both cool and light - the old conservatory is pretty cold at the moment, but it (and the south-facing windowsills) get quite warm when the sun comes out. That said, I don't need to chit very many, so I could put them on a south-facing windowsill now, and move them into the north-facing kitchen temporarily if we get a warm spell.
How much veg and wildlife can I pack into a 6m x 8m garden in suburban Cambridge? Let’s find out!
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(13-02-2021, 10:36 AM)Broadway Wrote: Morning Folks
Looks like I shouldn't have kept these in a closed box!
Am I right in saying I can break these off and let them start again? I would leave any short ones as they are and as long as there are more eyes on the others it should be alright to remove the stems
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(13-02-2021, 01:01 PM)Eyren Wrote: When do you guys chit your second earlies? It's years since I grew potatoes, and there seems to be a lot of conflicting advice online.
I'll be growing them in bags, if it makes any difference, and I'm in East Anglia, so we don't often get frosts after 31st March - and I can always bring them into the conservatory if we have a cold snap.
I never bother chitting my potatoes
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Spuds are chitting in a plastic greenhouse:
Swift, Pentland Javelin, Charlotte, Desiree and Setanta.
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