Tips on 'Chitting' Potatoes ⬇️ 🥔 First and second early varieties will benefit from sprouting or 'chitting' to achieve an earlier harvest. There is also some evidence to suggest that chitting produces a slightly higher yield but as I chit them every year I can't verify this. 🥔 Chitting basically means placing the potatoes in a cool and bright frost free space to sprout. You don't want it to be too warm or the shoots will be long and weak, 10 degrees C is about right. If you are doing small amo

Time to ‘Chit’ your Early Potatoes! 🥔Chitting your potatoes encourages them to sprout before planting out in the garden, it’s much like growing your seedlings on safely indoors before they are planted out, which results in an earlier and more robust crop if done correctly. I grow most of my potatoes in pots so I can make use of otherwise unused spaces, and two of my all time favourites are Charlotte’s as a second early that I’ll be planting in march, and Sarpo Mira as a main crop as they have s

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