[Spanky855]

Happy New Year to everyone and thanks for your help over the past year....... but I have another question  :roll: .

I'm chitting some tubers in my shed at the moment, there all laid out in trays on a shelf next to the window, been there for about two week.

I went up to the plot today to check the clotches over my winter onions and check on the spuds and some of them have started to go very soft and rotten about 2 or 3 in each tray of 20.

Is this normal or have I done something wrong, 2007 will be my first growing year. .

Any comments would be appreciated.

Kind regards ... Lee

[muntjac]

take them out pronto dont let any spuds touch each other .its early for them to be chitting in my mind so i suggest you knock them off and put them back on the trays .you have to watch the temperatures in such sheds .taters need storing at about 5c to be usefull in spring remove the new growth completly to the compost bin .check your spuds weekly by handling them if you have soft ones remove emmediatly

[shaun]

throw a blanket/towel over them for a few weeks, like karl says just a hint of frost will kill them off

[Aunt Sally]

If your taters get any frost they're gonners  

[Spanky855]

Thanks Everyone

Im a  little confused, this will be my first year at growing anything! including spuds.
The tubers were ordered from Thompson Morgan with instruction clearly saying that they need to be taken out the boxes and put to chit !

Is the reason Im getting rotten tubers the fact that the frost has got to them ot that they have been put out too early ??

Regards

Lee

[muntjac]

both probably .the different temperatures we are getting are causing probs all round with growing things at the minute

[shaun]

they dont like damp aswell