Potatoes which way up!!

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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2009, 15:02 »
That makes sense.  Thanks for the explanation!

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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2009, 17:56 »
i may be the younger sis but i new which way up to plant my tats.Only coz iv read sooo much on here though  :D Sorry to keep laughing sis but so glad you have joined the forum and growing veg too  :D

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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2009, 19:02 »
How do farmers manage then? Because I'm sure they dont plant potatoes singly in nice neat rows with upward facing chits like we do!

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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2009, 19:03 »
If you leave potatoes in the back of the cupboard long enough you get roots as well, coming out in the little cluster just underneath where the juicy chit shoots grow

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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2009, 11:08 »
I was too embarrassed to ask too...
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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2009, 13:39 »
there is no real need to get the chits pointing the right way up unless they are overly long.... nature has a strange way of knowing which way is up  ;)
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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2009, 15:44 »
Farmers planting machines just drop them in any way up. It does not matter but if the chit is at the top it will not have to grow right round the seed to get to the soil surface.

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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2009, 20:23 »
I must admit my earlies go in chits up and so do the 2nd earlies, but by the time it comes to main crop I just drop them in the hole  :blush: not got time to be posh with them  :lol:

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:blink: Please Please don't laugh today is the first day in my life I have planted a potatoe ::) I have just gone out to my garden looked at the soil then at the potato and don't know what way up to plant it sprouts up or down!! :unsure: :wub: HELP :ohmy:

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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #24 on: May 26, 2013, 10:49 »
Definitely sprouts up or as my grandfather taught me - if you plant them sprouts down, they come up in Australia and they get all the potatoes.

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Re: Potatoes which way up!!
« Reply #25 on: May 26, 2013, 10:54 »
I'll lock this thread now, it's from 2009 and I think it has been resurrected by mistake  :unsure:



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