Topic: How do you get slips from potatos?

[Hector]

I have had potatos languishing in a kitchen cupboard sprout before (when accidentally left to own devices). I want to try this on purpose with a regular potato, as I couldn't get seed potatoes of this variety. Can I get potato plants from it and how would I do it? I've read about sweet potato slips but this is an orginary/European potato.
Thanks!
Jackie

[saddad]

Just treat the whole tuber as you would a seed potato... plant intact. Shouldn't do this regularly as they may be carrying diseases.  :)

[nilly71]

My sister in law didn't know what to do with her seed potatoes and sliced of the growth with a bit of potatoe attached and left them on the window cill in a plate of water.
They had a great root sytem on them after about a week or two, she then planted them and they are growing fine.

Neil

[saddad]

That will work, sometimes they grow from peelings in compost bins...  :)

[chriscross1966]

I tend to find if you step on a rotten one on a fairly smooth hard surface then you slip a decent distance  ;D

[sawfish]

I tend to find if you step on a rotten one on a fairly smooth hard surface then you slip a decent distance  ;D

superb!
 ;D

[Hector]

I tend to find if you step on a rotten one on a fairly smooth hard surface then you slip a decent distance  ;D

But I'd get "tatty" if I did that???


Thanks all, will go for it :)