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 ...

Mr Sweeting, from Barnard Castle has emailed me a question. He wants to know why he should chit his potatoes, and could I just run through the conditions that they require for him. CHITTING is the ...

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If you've ever tasted a potato that's been cooked just minutes after being dug up from the ground, you'll know how different the flavour is from any supermarket variety. So now's the time to grow your ...

Can you please settle an argument? My husband says there’s no need to chit seed potatoes before planting them. My understanding is that it makes the plants grow faster and better, with heavier ...

GARDENING expert Monty Don has shared an "egg box" trick for chitting potatoes in February. The garden pro said the potatoes need to be kept in a "cool but frost free" place. Gardening expert, and ...

The winter months may not seem like the best season to get out in the garden but it’s actually a great time to start preparing for spring. Gardening expert and author Ellen Mary has shared which crops ...

Staffordshire-based potato producer WB Daw & Son hadn’t chitted its seed for more than a decade but, after developing its own time-saving, easy-to-use system, chitting is now firmly back on the farm’s ...

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 ...

Hellebores are such a welcome sight through the winter and early spring months. They brighten the shady areas of my garden and their flowers cope well with the worst of conditions. Helleborus verboom ...

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 ...