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  • #1

    I've got a cunning plan..............

    I have started digging my early potatoes (could be classed as robbing them, as they aint very big!)
    I've noticed that once I have harvested them, the original seed potato is still firm and has shoots on it! As I harvest them I intend keeping the original potato and boxing it up in egg cartons in the daylight. This way I should be able to re-plant the sprouted potato in late July and this will give me my Christmas spuds!
    You may say "Why not use one of the harvested potatoes as a seed potatoe?" and my answer would be "they are too small and immature and will not chit!"

    Anyone ever tried this cunning plan????

    Theoretically it should give me as many Christmas tatties as the ones I am harvesting now!
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    Never tried it but keep us posted!
    Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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    • #3
      I was suprised to find the original seed when I looked today - too early to dig them up but I will try your idea Snadger.

      Being a Yorkshireman it appeals to my thrifty nature!
      Digger-07

      "If you think you can, or think you can't, you're right" Henry Ford.

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      • #4
        Sounds like a good idea, let us know how it goes

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        • #5
          You beat me to posting on this subject, Snadger, I harvested a few Arran Pilot spuds today, and there was a green one amongst them. I wondered if I could save it to plant in late summer for Christmas, but do you think it wouldn't work if too immature? So how do you save seed potatos from early varieties???
          All at once I hear your voice
          And time just slips away
          Bonnie Raitt

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          • #6
            Originally posted by muckdiva View Post
            You beat me to posting on this subject, Snadger, I harvested a few Arran Pilot spuds today, and there was a green one amongst them. I wondered if I could save it to plant in late summer for Christmas, but do you think it wouldn't work if too immature? So how do you save seed potatos from early varieties???
            To save the seed potatoes you would need to let the plant mature, ie the tops die off!
            Usually earlies are lifted immature 'In the green' so to speak, at least that's how I lift em!
            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

            Diversify & prosper


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            • #7
              Well, I've stuffed a couple of my mongrels back in the compost heap to see what happens...they've got 2 choices, and its cost me nowt
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                As the saying goes Snadger....stick a tail on it and call it a weasel! ha ha! Bernie Your idea sounds good to me!
                Bernie aka DDL

                Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things

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