Ready, Steady, Chit – Jacket Potato Tubers in Egg Boxes

Posted on 19. Feb, 2011 by Tracey in Veg Plot

In a week where the Olympic London 2012 tickets were announced, there’s another event I’m celebrating the start of, the chitting of my jacket seed potatoes. They have arrived in very quick time from a company called Simply Seeds.co.uk, I have never used them before but as the potatoes were out of stock on another website I thought I’d give them ago.

Marfona Chitting Potatoes

I’m very impressed with the very fast delivery and little touches like the inclusion of a label marker that can be slotted into the ground or pot where the potatoes are planted and a handy potato growing leaflet.

I bought 2 bags of 12 seed potatoes which came to a bargain price of £1.99 each plus delivery. After much deliberation between Estima and Marfona varieties, I finally chose Marfona.

The seed potatoes from Simply Seeds were a good range of sizes and more large than small ones which is a good start if they are to be growing to jacket sized potatoes. For other jacket potato varieties to grow, please see my blog post: Grow Your Own Jacket Potatoes.

Marfona Seed Potatoes

My spuds will now be chitting on the side of the worktop in our kitchen for 6 to 8 weeks by which time, the weather will (hopefully) be warm enough in April to plant these out in my new raised bed. Of course this also gives me time to actually build the raised bed as well.

I love seeing the chits growing on seed potatoes, its like the indoor version of daffodils and tulips (but not so pretty). Its like that little sign of spring. When the chits are growing, I know that its not long to wait until spring and the next thing you know we’ll all be sowing our french and runner beans.

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