Chitting and planting potatoes

[stace]

thank you thats really helpfull!

[pukka.tukka]

Chitting Potatoes

Hi

I was just wondering if anyone have theirs underway and what everyone is growing this year?

I have not even brought mine yet.

[Two_Sheds]

I have bought Arran Pilot & King Edward from B&Q. I've got my own Pink Fir Apple & Roosters in the fridge.

I won't be chitting until Feb, and planting out on a nice day at end of March.

[Lazgaot]

I've ordered from the Tattieman:

Red Duke of York
Charlotte
Romano
Sante

I won't get them till the end of Feb and plan on having them in end of March/April.

[SlugLobber]

Don't worry, Stace, at this time last year, I had no idea either. I had a certain musical song going through my head every time somebody mentioned it. Thankfully I am now more enlightened, but that poxy song remains!!

[kate&rob]

trials were done i think it was in grow your own or the rival monthly mag, and there wasn't a great deal of difference, if any, between chitted and none chitted, if my memory serves me right.

[Two_Sheds]

Chitting will give earlies a head-start, but only if you plant them into warm ground. If not, they'll just stop, and you will have gained nothing... so there's no point doing it too early.

It's like starting French beans off in pots ... to give them a head-start. If you put your tender beans outside while it's still cold, they will sulk and stop growing.

[hawthorns]

chitting spuds

got some pentland javelin and international kidney today. is it too early to start the chitting process

[tattieman]

You should start chitting 6 weeks before you want to plant them. Hope that helps

[HeyWayne]

You should start chitting 6 weeks before you want to plant them. Hope that helps

I think the "traditional" day for planting out is St Patricks - hope that helps some more.

[hawthorns]

as its a little too early i guess they will be heading for a dark cool place

[Farmer_Gyles]

too early?? RHS says from january onwards
Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice: Choosing & Chitting Seed Potatoes

and this is a good read
Potato Varieties - Potato Council

[Rocketron]

too early?? RHS says from january onwards
Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice: Choosing & Chitting Seed Potatoes

and this is a good read
Potato Varieties - Potato Council

Now I'm confused. The RHS link says to chit in moderate light, avoid direct sunlight. I've not heard that before.

[Mags]

Hi Pukka - and all. I was thinking on the same lines as you but can "anyone" tell me while we're on subject of potatoes, how long blight stays in a plot. I acquired my allotment in November 08, and was told there and then that it had blight, and, at the same time that nobody had worked it for 3 years. I was planning on trying some blight resistant spuds like sarpo, cara, nadine and swift. Can someone enlighten me a little please?

[phil the shed]

Hi Pukka - and all. I was thinking on the same lines as you but can "anyone" tell me while we're on subject of potatoes, how long blight stays in a plot. I acquired my allotment in November 08, and was told there and then that it had blight, and, at the same time that nobody had worked it for 3 years. I was planning on trying some blight resistant spuds like sarpo, cara, nadine and swift. Can someone enlighten me a little please?

hello mags on the subject of blight i understand that it is an airborn disease that only thrives in the right conditions of prolonged warm damp (our summer)
i would assume thou' many a great grape will correct me that almost all of the english and welsh territories would then permanently have blight in the ground.

hi pukka our lottie shop seed potatoe's arrived this week will have three types
red duke of york early
desiree main
anya salad (strain of PFA) my fave
earlies chitting as soon as
mains couple of weeks later
phil the shed with potatoe's in his head