Sprouting veg

[I'm doing this now!]

Folks I have some shop bought garlic and some salad type potatoes that are "shooting" Should I consider putting these in pots in my greenhouse with the potential of a crop or just compost them? The big greenhouse is unheated. The small greenhouse needs glazing. Thoughts please.

[Plot70]

Just plant them in your normal garlic bed. They are fully frost proof.

[Peanut]

I would definitely give them a go!

The garlic can go in the ground or in pots.
With the potatoes, depending on how sprouty they are I would hold off planting them for a while and keep them in a paper bag in the fridge. You can rub off some of the longest sprouts, they'll produce more. Or you can take a gamble and pop them into pots or bags in your greenhouse now, wrap your pots in bubble wrap or the like, they won't do anything until the weather warms up, so keep them on the dry side,then hopefully, like the volunteer potatoes we always find from previous years crop, when the time is right they should start to appear.

[I'm doing this now!]

Cheers chaps, I'll pot them and put them in the smaller greenhouse which I glazed today. Needed 4 of 18x24 panes.....£10 each from local glazer. I was gobsmacked so looked at B+Q. 3 times dearer.

[mrsbusy]

Hi and thanks for asking this question. I agree about garlic. My issue is I have just gone to get some potatoes for lunch from my store - last year's salad type Jazzy variety - and they are all sprouting. So nothing ventured etc, I am going to pot them up and store them in the cold greenhouse and insulate them probably on straw, and see what happens.
Last year I had sprouting seed potatoes and no time to get them in the soil so I potted them up individually in 3litre pots and when they were bursting out of pots got them in the ground and we got a very good yield - these were the Jazzy that I now have sprouting.

[Andraste]

As a rough guide, ideally you want to start chitting spuds about 4-6 weeks before planting (although I've found you can start any time now really).

I recall reading somewhere online that the ground should be a min of 6 degrees C to plant spuds. Obviously that's not in reference to planting in pots but might give you an idea of the sort of temp you'll be needing to achieve from putting in your greenhouse/wrapping the pots to insulate.

I've found we've got better results (albeit in the ground) from waiting an extra couple of weeks for more favourable conditions than planting too early.