Grow Your Own Potatoes

I always find it exciting when the time comes to grow my own potatoes.  I've been buzzing  around local garden centres to get in good stocks of the seed potatoes and have then been happily setting them up to 'chit'. 
Set in seed trays and some old egg boxes the tubers soon start to produce the chits or tiny sprouts, making for a better and heavier crop which is also said to be a little earlier than if they're not chitted.  I'm never sure how much difference chitting makes, but its just one of those jobs I enjoy.  Strangely therapeutic after spending too long in from of the computer! But there is still some scarily cold weather about so all the trays are draped with fleece, and each is also stood on an inverted tall plastic flowerpot - it may look peculiar but its the best anti-mouse device I know!
If you've never tried to grow your own potatoes, then there is still time to order some smashing quality tubers of two of my favourites, 'Charlotte' and 'Nadine' from Grow Your Own with Pippa Greenwood, then my weekly emails will be there to help you through the process from soil preparation to lifting ! Click on grow Your Own at the top of the home page for more info.