Re: Potatoes sprouting already
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:53 pm
peter wrote:Strangely few of the shoots surfaced, but had some around a foot long.
That's "sprouting"
The key word is cool
That's "sprouting"
The key word is cool
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That's "sprouting"
The key word is cool
Re: Potatoes sprouting already
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:51 am
Alan, no need to get mad over sprouting. 
My sprouts went horizontally, for the most part they did not rise up out of the compost.
Now I know that it is dark in the bin as it is an old solid galvanised one, not the cheap and flimsy corrugated tinplate style, with a three inch vertical overhang on the lid, but I had assumed that gravity played some part in stuff underground finding its way to the surface, so why the horizontal run going up only when they hit the sides?
My sprouts went horizontally, for the most part they did not rise up out of the compost.
Now I know that it is dark in the bin as it is an old solid galvanised one, not the cheap and flimsy corrugated tinplate style, with a three inch vertical overhang on the lid, but I had assumed that gravity played some part in stuff underground finding its way to the surface, so why the horizontal run going up only when they hit the sides?