Removing Potato Flowers.

[Richard Eldritch]

Good luck, let us know how you got on.

So emptied my first spuds -Rocket; planted 7 feb. Only 20 golfball sized spuds to report. Still spuds for supper in April, got be a winner.

[Kristen]

I haven't even noticed a different yield between those chitted and those not!...again, maybe too little to notice??

I think chitting helps with time-to-harvest in First Earlies - but having said that if you had some chitted, and some not, then the chitted ought to have put on more weight, if they were "ahead", than the non-chitted??

My other reason for chitting (and I know it is oft debated with views on both sides) is "What to do with them if you don't chit them" as they are gonna sprout sooner or later, and I would prefer not the long white shoots that I have to rub-off-and-start-again as I think that wastes the seed tuber's energy. So I chit mine anyway, regardless of whether it improves yield / harvest date.

[Alison]

My other reason for chitting (and I know it is oft debated with views on both sides) is "What to do with them if you don't chit them" as they are gonna sprout sooner or later, and I would prefer not the long white shoots that I have to rub-off-and-start-again as I think that wastes the seed tuber's energy. So I chit mine anyway, regardless of whether it improves yield / harvest date.

That's my reason too, that and it gives we the illusion I've done something by resting a load of spuds in egg trays.


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