To cold to chit?

[Geo]

Dog Chit...

Sorry..

I'll get me coat..

Geo..

[Headfry]

oh so much 'chit' chat - must check mine tonight!

[nick the grief]

Sorry..

I'll get me coat..

Geo..

Excellent Geo ... The Natch didn't find it funny though ... brings a new meaning to Pick Your Own

[nick the grief]

Oh dear I feel like aright dunce. Mine (1st/2nd and Salad) had little chits already, and I put them in the ground at the weekend. seeing as I always have rogue potato plants from previous year cropping up all over the place, Ithought they'd be tough enough.

Oh well - we'll see what somes up.

If you have a frost forecast put some fleece over them and they should be fine FB or you could cover them with Black plastic and when the shoots start to push it up carefully cut a cross in it and let them grow thru it ... save earthing up.

[lainey lou]

oh so much 'chit' chat - must check mine tonight!

Oh yes, we're always talking chit here.

[Paul Wagland]

I think your spuds will be fine in the ground FB - you're quite far south so it would have to be a pretty comprehensive frost for the tubers to get damaged. Nick's idea about covering the ground with fleece or plastic is a good one if you want a little extra insurance. Could get them going faster too.

You'd still need to earth-up though I reckon; you must protect the leaves from frost as they emerge. We can have a late frost up until May, and if the leaves get nipped then the plants will take a long time to recover.

[HeyWayne]

I'm still getting over the fact that Geo chits on shelving in view of all the neighbours!

I think I might start chitting myself.

[Geo]

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Geo..

[silver birch]

I'm not sure if anyone will reply to this, as I'm a little late, but my boyfriends had his spuds in our shed (unheated) since mid Jan when he got them, but most of them have rotten. We just keep having to throw them out. All of the ones at the garden centres look perfect. We've since moved them in - onto a North-facing window sill but I realy don't know what I should be doing with them. Is this better for them?

Thanks

[smallblueplanet]

Spuds for chitting want to be somewhere cool, light (not direct light) and dry (not damp), but of course you can plant seed spuds without first chitting them - there is plenty of discussion over to chit or not.

[silver birch]

Ah - really?! Fab - thank you. They were in the sun in the shed before. I wonder if that was the problem.

Thanks for your help

[Flummery]

Probably they got frosted. They really need to be somewhere frost proof or they go balck and runny!