Spud question

[Jeannine]

I have just found a bag of very very tiny potatoes in my garage that I grew last year, they are a bit soft and have chitted a bit.Shoulkd I plant them, some are obly as big as grapes??
They are a type I can't get here . Any chances do you think
XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

[goodlife]

If there is live sprouted stems..you can carefully 'peel' them off, pot them with tip sticking out of the compost..they soon root and you can then plant them later on as 'plants'...it only take 2-3 weeks to make good root ball in 3" pots.
There is always 'danger' when planting 'past their best' potatoes..that they might find pushing through soil in ground too much a job...particularly if the weather and soil conditions are bit challenging.
Little extra effort with potting will ensure that you don't lost your precious spuds.. ;) ;D

[saddad]

Yesthey will grow...just don't plant too deep

[gwynnethmary]

can I ask a question too?  There are several coming up in the bed they were in last year, which has peas and beans in now.  Should I dig them up?

[Flighty]

Gwynnethmary not unless they're in the way.  I've got some doing the same among my broad beans.

[Jeannine]

Thank you all, they will go in today..XX Jeannine

[Pescador]

Goodlife, why would you want to peel the shoots off?
Surely a grape sized tuber is a much smaller energy reserve than normal and needs as much reserve from the tuber as possible

[chriscross1966]

THat makes them the same sort of size as a mcrotuber from the propagation labs.... they grow perfectly happily.... I'd pot them up in 5" and once you've got a plant stick it in a bit deeper... just use dirt with some BFB in it, no point in wasting compost on summat that might not grow.....