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    Storing seed potatoes

    Hi all, I'm a little confused about the process for storing seed potatoes for chitting and growing next year. The process for storing potatoes over-winter is relatively simple, but something I read said that chitting potatoes should be green when they go in the ground and not brown, so surely keeping them covered will stop them from going green?
    Can someone please shed some light on this for me?
    Many thanks
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  • #2
    They don't need to be green, they need to be sprouting. They will probably turn green as they sprout (but it's not obligatory).

    You keep them in the dark to keep them from starting to sprout to early.

    Get them out a few weeks before you want to plant them and they'll be fine.
    I generally put mine in in the second half of March

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    • #3
      I store my seed potatoes in the lowest part of the fridge. Not sure if that's right or wrong, but... it works
      https://nodigadventures.blogspot.com/

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      • #4
        I've wrapped each potato individually with newspaper and placed in a cardboard box with some hessian in between each layer.
        It's my first time storing seed potatoes so I want to get it as right as I can and give them the best fighting chance. I spend more on seed potatoes each year than I do any other seed.
        I'll leave them as they are then and hope for the best..

        Still on the subject of seed storing .. I've quite a few pea and lettuce seed saved this year and I'm thinking about making use of some glass bottles and leaving them in the shed in the allotment over the winter. Would this kill the seed?
        Last edited by Forage420; 19-09-2019, 09:02 PM.

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        • #5
          Just be a bit careful, if they don't have air, they can go manky.

          When i have time, I'm going to build a ventilated but light-tight potato storage box. I reckon by 2040 or thereabouts i might have started...

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          • #6
            If you have a bit of ground clear which isn't prone to freezing solid or getting water-logged and you have the seed potatoes to plant, there's no harm planting a few of them before Xmas - very often potatoes which are missed one year and left in the ground come earlier and give a better harvest the next.

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