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Hosta before you get too excited I feel the information given on that website is a little missleading, January is far too early for planting out spuds on open ground, you should put them in about March time, after the frosts, if the ground is workable, admittedly I do put a few in earlier but cover with clothes to keep the frost off, but only a couple so if they don't make it I'm only a couple of seeded spuds down, buy your spuds in January and leave to chit.  ;D ;D ;D

Thanks -  but I plan to grow them in tubs, will that make a difference as to when I plant them ?

See I knew this veg growing was gonna get complicated  ;)   LOL

Hi Hosta are you growing on a lottie or in a garden.
If you grow in tubs you can control the wettness of the soil.
If they are outside the frost will kill the leaves on your plant.
Take these off and the plant will still grow but set you back a bit.
If your growing in a heated greenhouse you might get away with if, but as I have no greenhouse others may advise better.
Hope this helps.    ;D ;D ;D

but cover with clothes to keep the frost off,
;D ;D

Well if I may have my 10 pence worth:

I'm saving all last year's Sarpo (Mira and Axona) for this year's seed, as everything else was wiped out with blight (again  ::)) except for these, and they're bloody expensive. Also my next door plottie did this last season and ended up with a bumper harvest.

As for the rest (first and second earlies, maybe some Cara or Picasso too), they'll be shop bought seed spuds.

I still will expect blight, it happens every year without fail, but hopefully after the earlies are done and there should still then be the Sarpo to keep me going.... :)