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Re: Chitting potatoes

I recommended the practiced chitting of spuds to my newspaper column readers every spring from 1993 to 1998--the five years I wrote a garden column for the 14 papers in the Southern Newspapers chain. These papers covered Texas, Alabama and Louisiana, where the practice of chitting is fairly widespread. I heard about chitting from an elderly local gardener, tested it and recommended it to my readers. I did an informal trial the first year--10 chitted potato pieces in one plot and 10 unsprouted potato pieces in another plot. The chitted ones flowered first and had useable new potatoes 17 days earlier than the control plot. Yields were about the same, though. Since.....I chit every year, especially now that I live in the Upper Midwest where the growing season is short.
Doreen Howard




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