[Robster]

I am eagerly awaiting this years seed potatoes turning up.   Yesterday I was preparing some new potatoes that I harvested  in November from bags I had moved into the green house.  All the potatoes were quite sound but one or two had just started to chit.

Well that got me thinking.  Could I use these as my seed potato.  The accepted wisdom seems to be no due to the potential of disease.  Apart from blight I thought that the main potato problems were pests or soil deficiencies.

So can blight live in the tuber?  Is there another disease I should worry about?  Has anyone resown their last years spuds and to what effect.  I suppose the potato seed manufacturers must do something similar

[DD.]

Read, mark, learn, inwardly digest, plant certified seed potatoes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potato_diseases

More specifically from one of our own:

http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/potato-pests-and-diseases-1

[Nobbie]

I'm going to give it a try this year as I happen to have a load of nicely sized and sprouting Maris Peer. I wouldn't go on replanting every year as that does seem to be asking for problems.

[bazh]

It'll work fine, just not best practice or recommended. Probably safer doing it with bags where you change the compost each year but I wouldn't want to plant them in open ground on an allotment.

[Swing Swang]

Read, mark, learn, inwardly digest...

http://www.jbaseedpotatoes.co.uk/potato-pests-and-diseases-1

You've got a long wait until the 2nd Sunday in Advent comes round again!

[DD.]

I get it, if no one else does!

[Carrot Man]

Try also washing your seed potatoes
All the top showers will wash the potatoes in warm water, in the idea of washing off anything which may cause disease
I know for fact that Sheri Plumb, National Potato Champion does this for this very reason and I don't believe there will be too many people know more than here for quality potatoes

[Swing Swang]

I get it, if no one else does!

Jolly good!

[Swing Swang]

Jolly good!
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Did you see how I've managed to get two cryptic references in already without being censored! (jolly = jol = a winter feast also known as yule)