"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"AL_n" wrote

Throughout the year I occasionally potatoes from my local supermarket (for
cooking purposes) and after keeping them for a while, sometimes they start
sprouting. If this happens, does it mean they are suitable for planting in
the garden? I live on the South coast of England, with its fairly mild
climate, if that's relevant.

I would assume the answer is "yes", but I'm asking this because I've never
heard of anyone planting spuds from the supermarket.


One of the old allotment gardeners on a previous site never bought seed
potatoes he always went to the supermarket and bought the cheapest and
biggest potatoes he could get, chitted and planted those. He always had a
superb crop of huge spuds.
It does seem that the bigger the seed potato the bigger the resulting
potatoes.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK


I remember during the war my Dad used to chit the potatoes, then cut them
into pieces with a chit or two on each, and of course get some for the pot
if possible. One spud 3 or 4 plants :-)

Mike

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