The year I first bothered to chit my seed potatoes, I thought it was going to be one of those fussy Old Gardener rituals that didn't actually change much. I was wrong. The un-chitted spuds in one bed ...

February is a great month to start thinking about chitting potatoes ready for planting. In fact, this simple garden job could be your secret weapon ahead of the growing season. But what does chitting ...

Guest blogger Emma Cooper, garden podcaster extraordinaire, knows a thing or two about growing potatoes. Here's her thoughts on the art and science of growing potatoes: You may think growing potatoes ...

Mr Sweeting, from Barnard Castle has emailed me a question. He wants to know why he should chit his potatoes, and could I just run through the conditions that they require for him. CHITTING is the ...

Potatoes are classified as being either earlies or maincrops. Early varieties are ready to harvest much sooner than maincrops, which are in the ground for much longer. They produce a larger harvest ...

Q: I am going to plant some new varieties of potatoes and I would like to harvest them earlier this year. Last year I got caught by the early snow we got in October and had to harvest my potatoes in ...

Staffordshire-based potato producer WB Daw & Son hadn’t chitted its seed for more than a decade but, after developing its own time-saving, easy-to-use system, chitting is now firmly back on the farm’s ...

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