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Dear fellow forum members
I’m quite some way behind in my garden this year due to losing the last month to a nasty virus.
I’m starting on the garden now, but am having problems with some seed potatoes that Ibought several weeks ago.
I bought Charlottes, Maris Piper and International Kidney, and if the weather starts to warm up pretty soon (ie above the ‘safe level’ of 5deg or more for planting potatoes out) I’ll obviously be wanting to get them started and put outside (I grown them in potato bags).
The main problem I have is that because they’ve been sat around in a box for two or three weeks whilst I’ve been ill, they’ve pretty much ‘over chitted’ and thrown a lot of white shoots of up to two or three inches long. They’ve also started going a bit soft.
Is there any way at all that I can save these potatoes now, and would they still grow if I planted them very soon? I was hoping to just take the long bits off and ‘knock them back’ and then hopefully start to re-chit them all over again.
Would all this be possible or should I simply let them go? Any advice you could give me would be very gratefully received.
I’m quite some way behind in my garden this year due to losing the last month to a nasty virus.
I’m starting on the garden now, but am having problems with some seed potatoes that Ibought several weeks ago.
I bought Charlottes, Maris Piper and International Kidney, and if the weather starts to warm up pretty soon (ie above the ‘safe level’ of 5deg or more for planting potatoes out) I’ll obviously be wanting to get them started and put outside (I grown them in potato bags).
The main problem I have is that because they’ve been sat around in a box for two or three weeks whilst I’ve been ill, they’ve pretty much ‘over chitted’ and thrown a lot of white shoots of up to two or three inches long. They’ve also started going a bit soft.
Is there any way at all that I can save these potatoes now, and would they still grow if I planted them very soon? I was hoping to just take the long bits off and ‘knock them back’ and then hopefully start to re-chit them all over again.
Would all this be possible or should I simply let them go? Any advice you could give me would be very gratefully received.
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