- Re: Dear all: buy rice, grain, potatoes and seed potatoes if you have a patch. Archived Message
Posted by Mary
on April 2, 2020, 2:15 pm, in reply to "Dear all: buy rice, grain, potatoes and seed potatoes if you have a patch."
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I planted a couple of rows of tatties yesterday accompanied by Mr Robin. They had been chitted. I like that word. Early 17th century: from dialect chit ‘a shoot, sprout’. 'Chitting simply means encouraging the seed potatoes to sprout before planting. Start chitting from late January in warmer parts of the country or in February in cooler areas, about six weeks before you intend to plant out the potatoes. Each seed potato has a more rounded, blunt end that has a number of 'eyes'.' |