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When and how to chit potatoes please ready for planting?
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the_constructor wrote:
When and how to chit potatoes please ready for planting? Potato Day in Hampshire is, iirc, end of Jan, which seems to work very well for me. Take them home from there and put them in a sunny* window. You could probably do them now, if you wanted - but then you risk the sprouts being too big that you damage them on planting, as you still have to wait till after they're going to get frost damaged before planting out (at least, after newly exposed bits will be out to be frosted!) Personally this (er, next) year we've tried the Thompson+Morgan sets rather than heading out to Hampshire, so we're just going to chit 'when they arrive' - which I'm expecting will be around Feb. |
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Vicky wrote ...
the_constructor wrote: When and how to chit potatoes please ready for planting? Potato Day in Hampshire is, iirc, end of Jan, which seems to work very well for me. Take them home from there and put them in a sunny* window. You could probably do them now, if you wanted - but then you risk the sprouts being too big that you damage them on planting, as you still have to wait till after they're going to get frost damaged before planting out (at least, after newly exposed bits will be out to be frosted!) Personally this (er, next) year we've tried the Thompson+Morgan sets rather than heading out to Hampshire, so we're just going to chit 'when they arrive' - which I'm expecting will be around Feb. I'm not sure about T & M, have found they often send stuff much too late for planting at the proper time. Certainly some stuff has been inferior quality too. We have used this supplier in the past with excellent results, top quality seed potatoes and good selection too. http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/ -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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"the_constructor" wrote in
o.uk: When and how to chit potatoes please ready for planting? To answer your question. For earlies. To chit them, put them in a very light place(I put them on indoor window cills) 4-6 weeks before planting to get nice green, red, black or whatever coloured shoots your seed shows. If you want to plant them at the end of March (which is the reccommended time), start chitting on St.Valentines day. When you plant them, do it gently so you don't knock off too many shoots. You can, however, plant a few under a cloche in mid-late Feb. to harvest them earlier and that requires an earlier chitting, say halfway-late Jan. If you chit them too early, simply take off the shoots as the seed potato will grow them again. The reason for chitting is to get the spuds earlier than you would without, and this is IMO essential for earlies to have them, well, earlier. A link for you http://tinyurl.com/6negqw Hope this helps. |
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Bob Hobden wrote:
I'm not sure about T & M, have found they often send stuff much too late for planting at the proper time. Certainly some stuff has been inferior quality too. I have to admit to having some problems with T+M quality. We keep getting seduced by their sale items, though. :-/ Had terrible trouble last year with a set of penstemons. 3x6 colours, 6 were a bit ropey when they arrived, and never pulled through. Oddly, they were 5 of one colour and 1 of another (all the same colour would at least have made sense, or 2-3 of each colour if it had been leaned against a radiator, or something!). I grumbled at them, and they sent a replacement (totally out of season, so presumably a leftover) - and /all/ of them were ropey and died. I gave up at that point. But of the original ones, we sold a lot at the school fete, and my next door neighbour got some lovely plants from it. We have used this supplier in the past with excellent results, top quality seed potatoes and good selection too. http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/ Last few years we've bought ours at Hampshire, and topped up with Wilkinsons or HomeBargains items. Planted way fewer than normal last year and have very few left now, which is a bit of a novelty for us! |
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