Hooray – it’s time to start chitting my potatoes! The garden centres and seed merchants are selling or delivering seed potatoes as from now so why not get stuck in and start yours off. I headed to the garden centre last weekend to buy mine.
I went for ones that said they had good blight resistance. I’ve never normally had problems with blight (famous last words!), but I have been warned by the other plotholders that this site has suffered in the past, so I don’t want to take any chances this year.
I’ve put my seed potatoes under the window in the potting shed – that way they are out of way of frost but have lots of light to enable then to grow nice, short, green sprouts. Make sure to look for the biggest eye and face that one towards the light. What you’re looking for is one healthy, big shoot, the rest can be rubbed off with your finger.
Good luck, chitters!
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