Potatoes

Potatoes:

No matter wether the tubers are bought, or are the rsult of home production, it is most important that you “sprout” the seed.

It has been shown that sprouted seed grow two to three tons to the acre more than unsprouted specimens.

This is not hard to understand, because the grower will be aware that if they have succeeded in persuading a shoot to grow from a tuber, it is a sound specimen, and that it will grow when planted in the ground.

On the other hand, if unsprouted tubers are planted in a row of twelve, at least three may well fail to come through the soil, which will result in the loss in that row of from eighteen to twenty pounds in weight.

Distributed over an acre, it is obvious that the increase of two to threee tons mentioned earlier, may be easily obtained if the tubers have been sprouted.

For sprouting seed potatoes, should be set up in single layers in shallow trays. I use old egg boxes.

Place them in a cool dry spot to sprout. Do not them in a dark place because this will produce long weak shoots which can easly be broken off.

What you need is short sturdy sprouts to give you a great harvest.