I may have this years seed potatoes in the garage waiting to be chitted, but
the volunteers from last year are already well under way. I've dug over last
years potato patch today and found a lot of very edible left overs (quite
big lates and second earlies - about 15 kilos in total and I've still got
another 1/4 of the plot to go). But there were quite a few potatoes that had
decided to start growning, and had about 3 inches of root and 1 inch of
stalk. I had half expected them to be totally dead thanks to this years hard
frosts up here in South Manchester, but I would say that the cold has
improved the lates in flavour by quite a lot. This is the second year that
I've stored the potatoes in the ground that they grew in, and it is two
successes in a row - who needs to learn how to build a clamp ;-)

Kase