Well..I did buy some sweet spuds from SM yesterday...soaked them in water for several hours, with several water changes and they are now in propagator in small dish of water...just keeping their 'toes' wet.
We'll see what happens. I did have good forage in shop...trying to find some with some 'eyes'...but none were showing any signs of sprouting, I think they are all treated...hence the soak.
They had 2 different varieties in shop...can't remember the names...but one variety was very thin and long kind of tubers and other very short and round.
I went for the stubby and round sort...
I do hope they result something this year...if only to get few own grown starter tubers for next year, they would be then more acclimatized to local condition and hopefully sprouting more readily too.