hello and potato confusion

[littleweed]

Hello everyone, what a brilliant site !  I am anxiously waiting by the letterbox for the paperwork from the council re. local allotments as I write.  Vegetables have outgrown the designated patch in the garden and a 'lottie' beckons.  Some advice please, Dr Hessayon says not to remove any sprouty bits from chitted first earlies but the gardenaction web site says just to leave four.  Confused in Middlesex.

[littleweed]

[aquilegia]

hello and welcome!

(post should really be in the "edibles" forum. but nevermind!)

More shoots mean more, but smaller spuds. Fewer shoots gives you a yield of larger, but fewer potatoes. It depends which you want. I tend to leave all mine on. But then I'm only in my second year of growing them!

[TULIP-23]

Littleweed :)

Very warm welcome
Good Luck with the Lottie when it arrives
Your in Good Hands Here
Any problems just ask.............some out there always willing to help...........Great Folks Here

[Roy Bham UK]

 ;D Hi Littleweed welcome aboard the good ship Lottieplot, lots of helpful members here but steer clear of Roundup he's a killer :o

P.S. How's Bill & Ben? ;D

[tim]

Aqui's said it.

I never bother &, as said earlier, last year's 2nd earlies gave us 9lb/plant - large pots.

[RSJK]

Same as Aqui and Tim here l leave all by sprouts on my potatoes and have never been disappointed yet with the size and yield of my crop.  Good luck with the lottie Littlewed

[wardy]

I didn't know which way up to plant my spuds.  I read the instructions from cover to cover and no-where did it say to plant with chits uppermost.  Oh well I dare say they'll sort themselves out  ;D