The arcane art of chitting spuds

AS a nation of potato pundits, we are all more than proficient with boiling, baking, roasting, mashing, frying and eating potatoes.

Planting, earthing-up and harvesting is also simple spud speak. But how about chitting?

Well, one of the first jobs of the vegetable growing season is to chit early potatoes. Chitting simply means encouraging or forcing seed potatoes (tubers) to sprout before planting.