what is the difference between seed potatoes bought in the shops and the potatoes that start to grow shoots in your cupboard? and why are my potatoes grown from the ones shooting in my cupboard so small? there are lots and lots of small ones!
2007-03-02 01:49:41 · 7 answers · asked by totalcabbage2 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
ok thanks, you cant get a good crop from shop potatoes but the main question is whats the difference? why are they different?
2007-03-02 02:59:37 · update #1
Well, not that many years ago - though I guess 50 is a long time - gardeners saved spuds from year to year for the following years garvest. So, your own spuds can certainly be used for seed.
Store bought spuds, for food, today have almoust all been treated to prevent sprouting, though they still do, it does take longer. This may be why they do not always produce a good size potato. I love the little ones :0)
It may also depend on what variety you bought and if that particular variety grows well in your area and soil condition.
There are many many different varieties of seed spud and all have different growing requirements and are harvested at different times.
Visit your local arden centre soon, and check them out.
Did you know you can grwo a basket full of spuds using a laundry basket and straw?
Try it, its fun.
2007-03-02 02:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by Barbados Chick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Potatoes are many times vegetatively propagated (cloned), quite than utilising a real seed the tuber is split into sections each and every containing a watch(bud). The potatoes in shops are many times of a extra physically powerful length which recieves a some distance better grade and consequently larger value. In some cases potatoes destined for intake are dealt with to evade sproutng. Certfied seed potatoes are produced relatively for use as "seed". The fields and crop are inspected and approved to be loose from particular ailment for which there's a nil tolerance on a similar time as different ailments are allowed if at an exceedingly low prevalence. many times there's a decrease to the style of generations which would be produced type an unique cultivar inventory. Early era seed (e.g., G2 or G3) probably includes decrease tiers of particular ailments than latergeneration (e.g., G5 or G6) seed. Commercially produced seed is under no circumstances thoroughly freed from ailment-inflicting organisms, even in spite of the undeniable fact that readings stated via a certification corporation point out that no ailment replaced into detected.
2016-12-14 08:53:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some potatoes in the shops are treated so that they do not sprout as well. Also, you only get one or two varieties in grocer's. There are potato catalogues out there who offer many different types, and they are all unique in what they have to offer in taste, colour, consistency, etc.
Most new potatoes start out very small. You can sprout them in a cupboard, but of course they prefer proper soil and water and such.
It is worth taking a look!
2007-03-02 03:16:34 · answer #3 · answered by hopflower 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot get a good crop of potatoes from shop bought potatoes, you need seed potatoes bought from a garden centre.
2007-03-02 02:39:06 · answer #4 · answered by pauline_cs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seed potatoes have many more "eyes", the part where the shoots originate from.
2007-03-02 02:13:12 · answer #5 · answered by daffyduct2006 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow... you need to do a google search of how things work...
2007-03-02 01:57:15 · answer #6 · answered by bluedanube69 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
none
2015-04-03 13:17:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋