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?
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If you leave them you will have to be very careful when planting.
Much better on a windowsill somewhere cold like the garage.
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.
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.
They will be OK if you leave them. But put them somewhere light now and be careful when planting.
(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.
(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
(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
Spuds are chitting in a plastic greenhouse:
Swift, Pentland Javelin, Charlotte, Desiree and Setanta.