With early potato planting season upon us, a look at good sprouting practice.
For those planning to plant early potatoes in March, RTÉ s farming programme On the Land had this advice,
Housewives and shopkeepers expect to buy a sack of sound, edible tubers . Diseased and rotten ones should be removed.
The programme visits John Ahearne s sprouting house on his farm in Cobh, County Cork to see how it is done.
This edition of On the Land was first broadcast on 7 March 1965.
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