ALAN TITCHMARSH has revealed how to grow your own potatoes using ones which sprout. The gardening expert claimed how using sprouting potatoes often produces better results than growing them from ...

URBAN FARMER:There's heated debate about the merits of chitting but the professionals let the results speak for themselves MEEDA DOES it. Brian does it. In fact, most gardeners do it. But still we ...

Some gardeners are all for chitting. But here is the secret: you don’t need to chit to be successful. Chitting your potatoes means allowing the eyes of your potatoes to sprout before you put them in ...

One of the first jobs of the veg gardening year is to start to force and chit some potatoes. Chitting means sprouting the tuber – putting it, most eyes upright, in a light, cool but frost-free place ...

Give your potatoes a head start and let them grow faster by using this method that gardeners swear by. Growing potatoes is one of the easiest things you an do in your garden. It doesn't take much when ...

Most of us toss our potatoes away once we see them start to sprout – but an expert says you should plant them instead. That way, you can grow your very own potato crop. Potatoes are one of the most ...

Q: I was recently in the United Kingdom visiting my mother and ran across an article in the local newspaper on a technique for growing potatoes called chitting. It triggered a memory, as I seem to ...

When the plant's stems and leaves reach 15-20cm high, mound up or add more soil. Jess Parker / NZ-Gardener Have you planted your potatoes yet? Or at least started the chitting process? If you want new ...

Although spring 2022 arrives astronomically this Sunday (i.e. the “spring equinox”), that doesn’t mean it’s full steam ahead with everything and anything gardening. We still could get below-freezing ...

More potato growers should consider chitting seed before planting, SAC’s Yorkshire agronomist John Sarup said at the college’s Association of Potato Producers annual conference. “Should there be a ...

Hardly any meal is considered complete without the addition of potatoes. One may use it in biryani, curry, chaat, bhujia, samosas, aaloo parathas and tarkaari etc. It is almost impossible to gauge the ...