"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"Baz" wrote in message
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A new neighbour gave me this.

If you dig your earlies and the parent potato is not rotten you can plant
them again.
I have done this and have good growth of foliage. Too early to look at
the
roots but time will tell.

Any thoughts?

I don't know about the parent potato and whether or not it's rotten, but I
have had some success digging up the plant carefully, leaving attached the
potatoes too small to be of use, and replanting the plant for later. Up to
half as many again is my estimate.

Steve

I have done this with spuds under black polythene sheeting. We had half an
acre which was jungle, cleared it and sent the rotovator over it, laid out
long beds of peat/compost, covered it with black poly, cut a cross every
couple of foot or so, shoved a spud through the cross and left it. Lifted
the edge of the ploy later and 'picked' the spuds off as they grew. Left the
plant to carry on growing.

Had so many I was giving them away to the neighbours. (Always keep in with
your neighbours, you have to live with them) :-))

Then got planning permission and there are now two blocks of flats on the
land.

Mike


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