[rowlandwells]

I am having to put a hold on planting my seed potatoes because the ground is unfortunately not fit to plant at this present time when  started cultivating the ground the middle of last week  it was drying out lovely then came the rain again

what concerns me is that the seed potatoes are getting green shoots admittedly they are strong shoots but some spuds are getting soft tubers the long range weather forecast is predicting better dryer weather next week so fingers crossed if the weather keeps fine it would only take a day and a half to plant the  35KG

[JayG]

As long as they are only soft because they are dehydrating rather than because they are rotting they'll be fine (easy to tell the difference - hard to think of a worse pong than from rotting spuds!)

I once kept a few 'spare' seed potatoes chitting from late January to August on my north-facing bedroom windowsill. Admittedly I didn't actually plant them out, but they were still very much alive and I would have expected them to grow well if I had done.

[rowlandwells]

Many thanks for that advise JayG