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spud chitting
Am looking for opinions.......other than getting an earlier crop are there
any other advantages to chitting potatoes? Thank you......HW. |
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spud chitting
In article pgl6a.217011$2H6.3715@sccrnsc04, Anne Middleton/Harold
Walker writes Am looking for opinions.......other than getting an earlier crop are there any other advantages to chitting potatoes? Yes and no. They will produce the same amount of crop whether they are chitted before sowing or not, and there will be very little difference in the calendar date when they are ready to lift. They will be marginally safer from attacks by mice etc. - or even by unaware cooks! OTOH, tubers are safer from frost kept indoors that bit longer and their growing time in the ground will be that bit less. The later sowing date gives the grower a better chance of preparing the growing site. Plus chitting them gives the option of rubbing out some of the chits, or of dividing tubers which are carrying a lot of chits. It also reveals any 'blind' or rotting tubers which may be there. -- Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs. |
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