Chitty chitty spuds!

my spuds have a lot of healthy chits on them, people tell me to reduce them to 3 but i cant see the point, would it not be better to have lots of them? and my first earlies are big seed potatoes i was told to cut them but would the big seed not fuel good strong growth for the spud plants?

I think i'm going to experiment this year - half with all chits left alone and half with chits reduced to 3 or 4 and then see what happens.

Maybe so, but I think dave has a good ideas - nothing like finding out for yourself! I might do the same with my international kidneys.

No - mean Im not going to remove the chits at all so I get loads of tasty little new potatoes!

I'm thinking of leaving the chits on my first earlies to do their own thing. Lots of small new spuds is fine by me. I'll reduce the main crop to three and go for larger spuds for storage.

If you like lots of small baby potatoes then leave all the eyes intact and plant them closer together and this will produce lots of tasty little tubers.

Oooh I shall try that with one of my first earlies.  There's nothing like small baby potatoes fresh from the soil and my girls will love them.... I'm getting hungry already