Potato’s & Kumara

Dunno bout Kumara, but spuds need seed potatos. They are small potatos that you plant, not seeds

Do you know where to get them from or would you just use the ones at the bottom of the bag in the pantry??

I heard somewhere that if you put the end of a kumara in a glass jar with water in and wait for it to grow shoots......leave it till the shoots are well established.........then it will transplant to the ground ok.

This may sound really dumb but are seed potatoes thoes little root looking bits that grow on your potatoes if you leave them in the cuboard too long???

Potato seeds come from the new tubers. As they mature over the season, they will tend to shrivel and grow shoots. The potato's are selected for eating and some are put aside for the purpose of the new growing season, which is around spring. If you only have a small plot to plant out, you could get a small container such as a 2litre ice cream plastic container and cut some Newspaper strips, you place it in the container with the potato's in. You then put the container into a dark dry place to encourage the eyes that have come up to sprout its shoots. The newspaper strips will absorb any moisture stopping rot setting in.