Are you sure about that, Mr Trench? These don't look like seed potatoes, just old spuds that haven't been stored properly. I would bin these and get proper seed potatoes. There is still time to get them chitted and planted. There is no telling whether or not they are diseased, and the sprouts will probably break off if an attempt is made to plant them.They are super-chitted.
They'll be fine - just follow the instructions in the previous post.
Are you sure about that, Mr Trench? These don't look like seed potatoes, just old spuds that haven't been stored properly. I would bin these and get proper seed potatoes. There is still time to get them chitted and planted. There is no telling whether or not they are diseased, and the sprouts will probably break off if an attempt is made to plant them.
I'm self-taught, too! When we moved into this house over 20 years ago, I walked up the garden to the veg patch with a gardening book in hand and a lot of hope inside me.You probably know loads more than me, I'm just self-teaching and making it up as I go along. I agree they look like normal spuds but I always plant them out when they chit (albeit in a different bag in case of disease) and it's always worked out ok.
Are you sure about that, Mr Trench? These don't look like seed potatoes, just old spuds that haven't been stored properly. I would bin these and get proper seed potatoes. There is still time to get them chitted and planted. There is no telling whether or not they are diseased, and the sprouts will probably break off if an attempt is made to plant them.
They were a few left overs from last year, I thought you could save any spuds and they'll grow again once planted. I stored them in cool, dark cupboard but obviously did something wrong.
They were a few left overs from last year, I thought you could save any spuds and they'll grow again once planted. I stored them in cool, dark cupboard but obviously did something wrong.
Marty, are they leftover seed potatoes or leftover potatoes that were bought to eat? Fresh seed potatoes each year is the way to go. The ones in the picture look like they got a bit too warm and too little light.They were a few left overs from last year, I thought you could save any spuds and they'll grow again once planted. I stored them in cool, dark cupboard but obviously did something wrong.
Marty, are they leftover seed potatoes or leftover potatoes that were bought to eat? Fresh seed potatoes each year is the way to go. The ones in the picture look like they got a bit too warm and too little light.
Personally, I'd bin them and get new seed potatoes.I planted seed potatoes last year I purchased from a garden store, then they grew a heap more spuds and these are some I didn't eat, so, wrapped them individually in kitchen roll then wrapped them into a tea towel and stuck them at the back of the cupboard in my kitchen. They haven't seen light since probably July/August.
They look like Aphids to me.Any ideas what these are? They've attached themselves to my roses. Quite happy to leave them if they're ok and won't destroy everything in the garden.
Use the ones that have gone bad to grow stalks and stick them back inDug up 2 tubs of potatoes today, got 4.7kg of edible ones. Chuffed to bits with it, and they're mostly of a decent size. Thew away another 1kg of ones that have gone bad/green.
Now that I've started keeping records of rough quantities I can successfully grow for the past few years, I'm going to upscale next year, and I'll hopefully be able to grow about 75% of our vegetable needs for the year.
Don't use the words two and foot in the same sentence pl!🫣Finally got round to building the raised beds I’d been planning to build for the last 4-5 years. Dual-height, so got some at a foot and some at 2 foot. Smartens up the garden massively. Now to fill them! Going to be next season before I start looking at growing though.
No he does stay out of things from time to time, hoping all is well in his (smallholding)? out towards Wale's I believemrtrench not logged on for a while
Sounds idyllic, no Internet in them parts, out of the way of all the madness going on in the worldNo he does stay out of things from time to time, hoping all is well in his (smallholding)? out towards Wale's I believe
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