The word “chit” refers to a piece of a seed potato that has an eye on it from which an entire plant can grow. The process of cutting your seed potatoes into chunks with viable eyes on them is called “chitting” your potatoes. This process is a great way to grow the maximum number of potato plants from each of your seed potatoes.
The practice of chitting potatoes is fun and easy and it helps you extend your potatoes’ growing season by giving them a head start. Here’s how we did it at school this year.
Here’s what our chits looked like about 3 weeks later. The kids checked them out and I planted them after our garden club meeting.