[dmg]

All my potataoes are chitting away very nicely, although 2 of my 9 varieties - swift and maris bard are each sending up between 3 and 6 sprouts. I have seen on the forum before to reduce these to 1 or 2.
What are the advantages of reducing the sprouts and any disadvantages to just leaving them as they are.

Thanks
Dmg

[DD.]

It is said that few chits give you larger, but fewer spuds.

Personally I always leave them.

[fatcat1955]

If you do reduce them , take out the middle shoot's and leave the shoot's on the side's. Use a teaspoon to dig under the shoot. Like DD i leave them all, and 5-6 shoot's is not un-commom.

[richyrich7]

If your a bit tight fisted like myself, I spilt the potato with a knife so I end up with 2  for the price of one 

[Mark's Sussex Allotment]

Does it affect your harvest if you split the spud?

I've watched a gardener on YouTube split one potato into about 5 if it has enough eyes etc....

But they never mention the resulting harvest.

[richyrich7]

Does it affect your harvest if you split the spud?

I've watched a gardener on YouTube split one potato into about 5 if it has enough eyes etc....

But they never mention the resulting harvest.

Not that I've noticed.

I once cut out plugs of spud each with an eye in, grew them on in pots but I lost them to a late frost, never got around to trying that experiment again.

[dmg]

Thanks for the replies folks,
I think I will try removing half of them and compare the harvest.