Potatoes chitting, with the help of an onion?

[Snoop Puss]

Crumbs, gh2. Colin Bowcock's advice sounds potentially backbreaking!

Has anyone tried this method?

[Andraste]

I'd imagine ol' Col was only suggesting a way to get a few early rather than a whole row or more

I've not tried it myself but my grandad always put some early-earlies in a bucket of compost which was put in an unheated greenhouse (just an old bog-standard one with a few drainage holes in the bottom & often a broken handle). I imagine he topped up the compost in the bucket to earth up as they grew as you would with a potato bag growing. I can't remember if he'd move the bucket outside as the weather warmed (probably) but they certainly didn't get transplanted - just stayed in the bucket until harvesting. The first family feed of early spuds always came from the bucket a good couple of weeks before the earlies in the beds were ready - yummy yum yum