Should I rub shoots off chitting potatoes?
Published: Sunday, 24 March 2019 at 3:00 pm
Should you rub shoots off chitting potatoes? Grow better potato crops, with the help of this Quick Tips video..
Chitting potatoes before planting them can give you an earlier harvest. But should you remove some shoots? Catherine Mansley, BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, explains in our Quick Tips video.
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