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Seed potatoes on the windowsill

28 March 2026 · Garden

The seed potatoes are sitting in egg boxes on the kitchen windowsill, chitting. Short green shoots after two weeks, which is what you want: sturdy and dark, not long and pale.

This year it's an early variety for the raised bed and a maincrop in two big bags by the fence, as an experiment. If the bags work I'll do more of them next year and keep the bed for things that are harder to grow.

Planting out in about three weeks, depending on the frost.