I just want to ask...
If you chit a small potato, then start piling dirt on top, as is, will it produce more potatos, as the growing plant runs out of goodness from the original potato earlier and has to send out tendrils, on which I'm guessing the potatos grow, earlier?
Or will that not work?
I ask because, from my last crop of potatos, I've fished a few little'uns out of the soil and wondering what, if anything, I should do with them.
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Simply the Pest
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Not sure how small the potatoes are, but I wouldn't chit If they are very small like a ping pong ball and have only one or two eyes. I boil them up for dinner. If you purchased them as seed potatoes then go ahead and give it a try. Many folks cut their seed potatoes so that each piece only has 3 eyes and they don't chit them, but just let them dry for 2 or 3 days or dust them with lime or sulfur and plant them in the ground. Maybe this UK site will help.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0204/chitting_potatoes.asp
Could it be your potatoes are small because you planted the tubers too close together?
https://www.mastergardeners.org/newsletter/spuds.html
Newt
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0204/chitting_potatoes.asp
Could it be your potatoes are small because you planted the tubers too close together?
https://www.mastergardeners.org/newsletter/spuds.html
Newt