Saved taters not chitting.

**rustylady** · 02-09-2009, 06:43 AM

You don't HAVE to chit them, you could try burying them in small pots of compost to start them growing.

**King Carrot** · 02-09-2009, 08:33 AM

would this years crop not be dormant till next year - I thought that spuds for harvesting mid winter were discouraged from growing earlier in the season so they take off when planted summer/autumn?

**SlugLobber** · 02-09-2009, 09:17 AM

I would plant them and see, but there might be something in what KC said. The ones I chitted for winter spuds were from an organic batch of supermarket spuds (bought in about April, so I guess more suited to cooler growing conditions?).

**Paulottie** · 02-09-2009, 09:33 AM

You might have been best to put them in the fridge for a month or so first so as to trick them into thinking it was winter. then re-plant.

**rustylady** · 02-09-2009, 10:05 PM

Mind you, if you keep supermarket potatoes in a cupboard and forget about them for a few weeks they soon produce sprouts.

**maytreefrannie** · 02-09-2009, 10:10 PM

I have a few on the windowsill, no sprouting but I'm going to plant them in a bin anyway.

Other years I've never managed to get spuds for Christmas, but I'm giving it a go again this year.

**Paulottie** · 03-09-2009, 10:00 AM

Originally posted by rustylady View Post

Mind you, if you keep supermarket potatoes in a cupboard and forget about them for a few weeks they soon produce sprouts.

I suspect they have been kept in cold storage before distribution anyway....probably on the way hear from Egypt or Timbuktu.

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