Great! I'm more optimistic now that my potatoes will make it in bucket/can now.
I've still got to fence off a section of my raised-bed garden to utilize it before spring. When all that went down last year, my surprise pregnancy and resulting abandonment of all thing vegetables, my garden was...
Thank you all so much for the advice. Really didn't want these seed potatoes to go to pot (ruin), too.. See, I lost last year's supply; my track record is a bad one. Reason being, I had everything a-go for my beautiful new garden: growing tons of seedlings, dirt prepared in raised beds, on & on...
I didn't directly answer you question; sorry. We had snow on ground 2 weeks ago, none now (just dodged another snow bullet). The weather's so freaky this year that it makes me reluctant to plant in raised beds now.
I'm in zone 7, Alabama. I was planning on doing them in raised beds but I can switch that to cans in basement. Think I should plant now? Will the wrinkled slightly soft condition mess me up?
I just checked on my seed potatoes in a cool/dark place in my finished basement (a closet surrounded in cement that stays nice & cool). Looked like a science experiment gone wrong. On my Rose Golds, I have huge sprouts, up to 6 inches long, and the potatoes are slightly wrinkled. What to do...