I vaugley remember a thread about chitting that went something like
they chit better in the veg rack than on the windowsill.

I had one lot on the windowsill and another lot waiting in a
bag/shade. The in the bag ones grew lots of shoots, the in the light
ones minimal ones.

Is this perhaps the point? Windowsill gives short fat shoots, in dark
long impractical vulneralbe ones?
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Mike Reid
Spanish regional cooking at
"http://www.fell-walker.co.uk/espania.htm"