Chitting potatoes

Yesterday I decided to chit some seed potatoes: Sebago, Royal Blue and Dutch Creams. I am interested in whether this will lead to a significant difference in harvest time or yield. My mother said that her father routinely chitted his potatoes and I suspect that was because of a shorter growing season being in Holland at approximately 52 degrees whereas I am at 38 degrees. In any case I would like to do the experiment. So I planted some without chitting yesterday and will plant the chitted ones in about a month.

Today I planted a hellebore and a male and female mountain pepper indigenous to this area. It will be several years before it fruits. I also planted a rootstock apple MM106 which I would like to propogate by stooling. Really I am experimenting and trying to take notice of what happens to increase my knowledge