Am I the first one to start chitting my spuds?

[veggiechicken]

I love the way folks try different things and prove time after time there is no one right way and no one wrong way

I'd have boiled, roasted or chipped them myself.

[veggiechicken]

Where people normally store potatoes over winter? Like when you dont have cellar?

Somewhere cool and dark - mine are usually in a sack in the utility room (no heat).

[Aberdeenplotter]

Where people normally store potatoes over winter? Like when you dont have cellar?

Somewhere cool and dark - mine are usually in a sack in the utility room (no heat).

VC, I Thought Atta was perhaps agreein that burying spuds was what people did when they didn't have a cellar. A sack in the utility room works for me provided it would be frost free yet still not warm enough for the spuds to start sprouting.

[SarrissUK]

I have this problem - I don't really have anywhere that is cool enough to store veg. I know that I could try a clamp, but there's mice and rats up at the allotment, so that's out of the question really. I'd hate for them to get their little mitts on my produce.
There's an old chicken shed that maybe I could use for storing produce, but it'd have to be suspended from the ceiling somehow, so the rats can't get to it. Or is there another way? Ideas welcome

[Gillykat]

I have this problem - I don't really have anywhere that is cool enough to store veg. I know that I could try a clamp, but there's mice and rats up at the allotment, so that's out of the question really. I'd hate for them to get their little mitts on my produce.
There's an old chicken shed that maybe I could use for storing produce, but it'd have to be suspended from the ceiling somehow, so the rats can't get to it. Or is there another way? Ideas welcome

Same here.....I think I'll have to build myself a storage shed that is lined with rat & mouse-proof weld mesh and keep any produce in there

[Snadger]

In true 'blag it' style I may change plans accordingly depending on how it goes. What I want at the moment is for the skins to harden and go green. After that they should start chitting. If I feel this is happening too quickly and they would perish if planted out I have a few more options.

I can either put them in pots with a small amount of compost and earth up as they grow.


I can plant them out really deep (10 inches or so) so they will be protected

I can do as AP suggests and bury them in a biscuit tin deeply to slow growth down then plant in March.


I'm like that guy with the carpets, I love experimenting me!

[Snadger]

Same here.....I think I'll have to build myself a storage shed that is lined with rat & mouse-proof weld mesh and keep any produce in there

Don't rule out a tattie 'clamp'. I built one on a rat infested plot and it worked very well.

[rary]

Your burying them deep is a good idea,there was a thread about doing something like that a couple of months ago as it was pointed out that the ones that are missed when lifting seem to survive the harshest of winter's and grow

[Snadger]

Your burying them deep is a good idea,there was a thread about doing something like that a couple of months ago as it was pointed out that the ones that are missed when lifting seem to survive the harshest of winter's and grow

An old farmer friend of mine once told me to bury newly dug new potatoes deeply in a biscuit tin and dig the tin of tatties up again for Christmas dinner.


I tried it but dug half my plot trying to find where I had buried the tin. Still never found it to this day!

[veggiechicken]

I remember reading the Bury a biscuit tin for Christmas advice too and thinking what a lot of effort for a few spuds. Its hard enough digging a deep hole to plant a tree - burying a tin just to dig it up a few months later seemed a nutty idea, even to me.

[Snadger]

I remember reading the Bury a biscuit tin for Christmas advice too and thinking what a lot of effort for a few spuds. Its hard enough digging a deep hole to plant a tree - burying a tin just to dig it up a few months later seemed a nutty idea, even to me.

Still wish I had found it to test the theory...…………..

[veggiechicken]

Metal detector?

[Snadger]

Metal detector?

On a scrapheap...….

[veggiechicken]

You've heard of Scrapheap Challenge?

[4Shoes]

You could have your cake and eat it. Thick peel the potatoes and plant the peel. Eat what's left

Plant any which way you care

Perhaps not at this time year.