So obvsly I don't know anything and just happened to visit a potato museum on a highschool field trip... but did you know, you can cut them into quarters, because they sprout from their skin, quadrupling the number of plants you yield with same number of starter potatoes laid out in pieces? CONGRATS, GOOD LUCK, WATCH OUT FOR GREEN BLIGHT!
We cut ours up, put them cut-side-up until they dried out (like a thin callus).... then we turned them eyes-up, and planted them. Works great, every year!
So obvsly I don't know anything and just happened to visit a potato museum on a highschool field trip... but did you know, you can cut them into quarters, because they sprout from their skin, quadrupling the number of plants you yield with same number of starter potatoes laid out in pieces? CONGRATS, GOOD LUCK, WATCH OUT FOR GREEN BLIGHT!
That's what I did. Mine are taking off!
You can cut it up even more depending on how many eyes it had to sprout.
I cut up potatoes to start but they just got moldy and had to throw them out.
We cut ours up, put them cut-side-up until they dried out (like a thin callus).... then we turned them eyes-up, and planted them. Works great, every year!
Yes, wife and I talked about cutting them up to increase yield.
When you do that there is something that happens as a side effect, don't remember right now, but due to our situation we elected not to this time.