[teflon]

I was told today that from your  maincrop potato crop(harvested in July/August?)it may be possible to chit some potatoes&replant ready for a winter harvest(if you can keep them frost free)  Is this right?
  Also on the same theme,if  a potato crop takes 12-15 weeks from planting to harvest would it be possible to keep harvesting,chitting&replanting the same potatoes(if you know what i mean) and get three crops a year ?(Again,if they were kept frost free)

  Or is this just wine fuelled rubbish?
  Cheers
 Tel.

[DD.]

Wine fuelled rubbish!

I'm sure Iain will tell us how long it is, but spuds need a dormancy period before they can be pursuaded to grow again.

You cannot dig them up, replant them and expect them to grow straight away.

[Iain@JBA]

The normal dormancy period for spuds is 60 days. So if you harvested them today you would have to wait 60 days before they started to grow again.
hope that helps.

[DD.]

See - I said he'd know!

[mumofstig]

an old post of Iain's

     Re: spuds for Christmas
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2009, 04:50 »  

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You have 2 option for growing Christmas potatoes.
1) in containers that you can lift into a frost free area later in the season.
2) Outdoors and be prepared for the frost to kill the shaws off. You can maybe fleece the shaws and prolong the growth and when they do finally go down you could make sure you have plenty of soil covering your spuds in the ground and leave them till near Christmas day and lift them.

Regarding using your own seed potatoes you must make sure that your potatoes are harvested and left for 60 days before re-planting to kick start the growth cycle.
The latest to plant is the middle of August. That means you have about 10 days to lift your potatoes if you want to use them.

[teflon]

Wine fuelled rubbish!

I'm sure Iain will tell us how long it is, but spuds need a dormancy period before they can be pursuaded to grow again.

You cannot dig them up, replant them and expect them to grow straight away.

  Right. just so long as i know