Using ordinary potatoes instead of Seed Potatoes.

[Growem]

I planted 3 varieties of store potatoes last year. Basically I planted them because they had been forgotten in the cupboard and were growing wild anyways! None of them had a very high yield, but I could put that down to not enough nutrients in the soil (I didn't add compost) and early blight as much as I could put it down to being from the store.

If you have spuds and they are sprouting too much to eat, why not plant them? I have a head of garlic that is likely going to get planted too, since it looks set to flower in my cupboard, haha. But I wouldn't go out of my way to use eating potatoes vs seed potatoes.

[SlugLobber]

Better to grow some varieties you can't purchase in your local Tesco's, or else use that space for something that is expensive to purchase or tastes much better home grown (ie. asparagus or fresh peas).

This is my basic principle of GYO. Useful advice, especially if, like me, you're restricted in space! The only shop available one I've got (that I know of) is Desiree and I'm growing that simply because I know that mine are better, so ner!

[chengjing]

Confess: I always use supermarket potatoes - since we always buy too much of them and they always turn green and chit quicker than we can consume them. No point of waste them. I don’t grow a lot of them. They seem have decent crop, serve the purpose for me. But once I tried to plant a couple of not chitted ones, they did not come up at all.

[goldwolf]

Last year I ran out of set.s so to make the row up I put 6 supermarket tatties in.
they cropped just as well if not better.
And not one had slug damage were as the new seed (Rocket) were eaten to death

[carlseawolf]

I always use potatoes that are shop bought for planting.