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Potatoes are a really worthwhile crop for the amateur or small time gardener, even though commercially grown potatoes are relatively inexpensive, the taste of home grown potatoes is hard to beat. Very time I have served home grown potatoes, I always get asked what type they are, or comments like they taste like potatoes did years ago.

No matter on what scale you are home growing your potatoes, they always benefit from a little bit of extra effort to get them off to a head start. It is really important to buy special 'seed' potatoes. Seed potatoes are simply tubers chosen for sowing the next year. Potatoes from the supermarket or store could contain disease or virus and contaminate your soil, which is the last thing a home gardener wants. These seed potatoes do tend to cost more but, its well worth it for piece of mind. Get them from local nursery or garden centre. They sometimes even have unusual varieties of potatoes as well as the ones you will have heard of.

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Some gardeners do plant seed potatoes straight into the soil. You can do this, but I have always found that chitted or sprouted potatoes get off to a great head start, and also produce heavier yields of potatoes.

How to Chit Potatoes - Easy Guide to Growing a Bumper Crop of Your Own Potatoes

Chitting should start with your seed potatoes from mid February onwards. If you are in a warmer part of the country then start them off in in January. This will give the seed potatoes around four to six weeks to chitt, until March- April when ready to plant out when risk of any frost has gone and the ground can be worked easily. It really is easy to chit or sprout potatoes.

There are a few methods:
1. Old egg boxes.
2. Old polystyrene apple containers.
3. Hay or straw filled seed trays.

I use old egg boxes and begin to save them from January onwards instead of putting them in my compost bin.

The seed potato should be placed in its container with the eyes (or indents) facing up as this is where the bud will grow from. Each seed potato has a slightly more rounded or blunt end with a number of eyes. Stand the tubers with the blunt end uppermost. The best place to leave your seed potatoes is in an area of natural but not direct sunlight, as well a slightly cool. A garage maybe that is cool with light but no direct sunlight is ideal. It can take four to six weeks to get the short sturdy buds, around 0.5 to 1 inch in length ready for planting out as soon as the risk of frost has passed in March to April (depending on where you are of course).

If lots of sprouts appear, rub off the the smaller ones and keep the best, usually the healthiest, sturdiest stem. The potatoes can become wrinkled when chitting, but this is to be expected. Spending a little time on chitting will help your crop get a great head start and pretty much guarantee your seed potatoes will grow in to a good crop of home growns.

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B. Johnston is the founder of http://vegetablegrowingtoday.com. Visit the site for grow guides, advice and discussion on growing your own vegetables. From window boxes to allotments-size doesn't matter! Don't forget to sign up for the vegblog!