early seeding

[dave clarbour [diddy]]

please could some one tell me when the best time to plant seed potatoes early and weather they need to be strated in an frost free aerie and any other plants i.e runner beans broad beans i was thinking of new gersey pots [international kidneys outside of gersey]

[rustylady]

Where do you garden Dave? You can't start any of them this early in our part of UK. My potatoes get chitted in the shed attached to the house in February, and get planted on the lottie late March. Broad beans (Aquadulce) can be planted now as they're hardy, but runner and french beans are not frostproof so they get started April/May.