Posted by AL_n on December 2, 2011, 12:42 pm
Throughout the year I occasionally potatoes from my local supermarket (for
cooking purposes) and after keeping them for a while, sometimes they start
sprouting. If this happens, does it mean they are suitable for planting in
the garden? I live on the South coast of England, with its fairly mild
climate, if that's relevant.
I would assume the answer is "yes", but I'm asking this because I've never
heard of anyone planting spuds from the supermarket.
TIA
Al
Posted by stuart noble on December 2, 2011, 1:36 pm
On 02/12/2011 17:42, AL_n wrote:
> Throughout the year I occasionally potatoes from my local supermarket (for
> cooking purposes) and after keeping them for a while, sometimes they start
> sprouting. If this happens, does it mean they are suitable for planting in
> the garden? I live on the South coast of England, with its fairly mild
> climate, if that's relevant.
> I would assume the answer is "yes", but I'm asking this because I've never
> heard of anyone planting spuds from the supermarket.
> TIA
> Al
I had a very good crop of King Edwards that way.
Posted by Bob Hobden on December 2, 2011, 4:48 pm
"stuart noble" wrote ...
>AL_n wrote:
>> Throughout the year I occasionally potatoes from my local supermarket
>> (for
>> cooking purposes) and after keeping them for a while, sometimes they
>> start
>> sprouting. If this happens, does it mean they are suitable for planting
>> in
>> the garden? I live on the South coast of England, with its fairly mild
>> climate, if that's relevant.
>>
>> I would assume the answer is "yes", but I'm asking this because I've
>> never
>> heard of anyone planting spuds from the supermarket.
>>
>I had a very good crop of King Edwards that way.
Can't grow them, got clay in our silt soil.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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Posted by <vicky on December 2, 2011, 4:43 pm
> I would assume the answer is "yes", but I'm asking this because I've never
> heard of anyone planting spuds from the supermarket.
We do it all the time, and my dad did it for years before I did.
Posted by Bob Hobden on December 2, 2011, 4:45 pm
"AL_n" wrote
>Throughout the year I occasionally potatoes from my local supermarket (for
>cooking purposes) and after keeping them for a while, sometimes they start
>sprouting. If this happens, does it mean they are suitable for planting in
>the garden? I live on the South coast of England, with its fairly mild
>climate, if that's relevant.
>I would assume the answer is "yes", but I'm asking this because I've never
>heard of anyone planting spuds from the supermarket.
One of the old allotment gardeners on a previous site never bought seed
potatoes he always went to the supermarket and bought the cheapest and
biggest potatoes he could get, chitted and planted those. He always had a
superb crop of huge spuds.
It does seem that the bigger the seed potato the bigger the resulting
potatoes.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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> cooking purposes) and after keeping them for a while, sometimes they start
> sprouting. If this happens, does it mean they are suitable for planting in
> the garden? I live on the South coast of England, with its fairly mild
> climate, if that's relevant.
> I would assume the answer is "yes", but I'm asking this because I've never
> heard of anyone planting spuds from the supermarket.
> TIA
> Al