Forgot the taties!

wiskers2245

Last year I planted some potatoes, I think they were called Blue Salad potatoes. I put the harvested potatoes into a cupboard and forgot about them. Now they look like this. Should I trim them before planting them or just coil up the runners in the soil? Is it too late to plant them now?

Skandi

OOh not ideal! Where are you? Where I am which is the equivilent of Aberdeen it is still to early to plant potatoes. if you are right down south you may be ok, idealy you want to plant about 3 weeks before your last frost.

If I had to plant those I would trim the shoots back to where there are masses of branches coming off and carefully lay them in a trench, but you would probably be better off buying some new seed potatoes to be honest.

wiskers2245

I'm in South Shields, north east England. We had frost this morning. I'll still plant them rather than get new ones.

wiskers2245

Or plant these and new ones to see if there's any difference.

fidgetbones

I've planted taters with long shoots before. Dig a trench and carefully lay along the trench then cover up.

barry island

Are the potatoes dried up because they aren't a lot of good if they are.

wiskers2245

the skin is shrivelled looking and they feel a bit squishy.