I grew these! I’m proud of them! They began with a slightly lesser volume of potatoes that went green in our pantry — and of course I could not simply throw them away or even compost! Instead, I chitted them on the window-sill until they were gnarled with roots (or are they shoots?), then planted them in a plastic pot. Kept mounding up, then moved them, at the end of the summer, into a new raised bed we managed to make happen. And the leaves grew and grew and finally, we harvested them. Not many, but enough for a supper for the four of us, and so good boiled, with butter and salt and pepper. And I really tasted,for the very first time, a sweetness and a freshness, and why potatoes are called Earth Apples.
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They look great – no better potato than one you’ve harvested from your own patch! When I cleared one patch of onions from the polytunnel I popped a few chitted potatoes in the vacant bed. They have ‘hatched’ and I’ve mounded them up for the first time and am looking forward to a crop for winter solstice.
I love the idea of a potato “hatching!”