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kippers garden
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Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 15, 2011, 21:36:16 »
We have had a bumper crop of potatoes this year and yesterday we dug up 180kg's and i still have more to dig up.
Previously, we have stored our potatoes in sacks in a frost free garden storage box but this year they obviously won't all fit and we haven't got a garage and our shed is so damp it really needs knocking down.
My question is....where do you store your potatoes when they are in sacks? I'm hoping this may give me some ideas of where to store ours. ???
Thanks for any replies
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saddad
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Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 15, 2011, 22:01:32 »
Ours go into the outside toilet... brick shed, slate roof... :)
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Flighty
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Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 15, 2011, 22:16:21 »
Mine are in plastic bread trays under the bed in the spare room! They'll be swopped for cardboard fruit trays/boxes, which are bigger, later on.
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Sparkly
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Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 15, 2011, 22:19:06 »
We have a bumper crop too! Last couple of years ours have been frozen in the shed over winter. We have cleared out some space in the garage and will try there for this year. I do think I will freeze quite a bit of mash though as that seems quite successful.
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lottie lou
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Birmingham
Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 15, 2011, 22:32:50 »
Never thought of freezing as mash although I did a load as chips last year.
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Alex133
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 16, 2011, 06:30:01 »
I'm going to store mine in hessian sacks on raised bench under covered hen run until about October, checking for any going off every 2 weeks, then put in loft at home (too hot up there until weather really cools down). Don't trust shed to be frost free.
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macmac
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Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 16, 2011, 08:50:08 »
We store ours in paper or hessian sacks in the garage.
We had trouble with some sprouting once apparently it was the heat of the car engine so we put them on the opposite side now.A lottie friend, a seasoned gardener,lost all his main crop which he stored as usual in his lottie shed due to being frozen :(
We haven't dug any yet .
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brown thumb
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Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 16, 2011, 10:38:18 »
mash, chips also boiled if left whole is the most successful also par boiled in slices
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Kleftiwallah
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Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 16, 2011, 10:40:16 »
In tattie bags behind the settee in the conserv' 8) Cheers, Tony.
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green lily
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Posts: 550
Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 16, 2011, 21:05:24 »
In cardboard boxes in garage at moment but have to watch out for mice...which eat through anything they can. Shed too cold so may have to move them to conservatory if it gets very cold. Don't others have the mice invasion I get as soon as the temperatures plummet? :(
Still have to dig maincrop of PFAs -- still dodging/ cutting out the blight but guess they'll have to be out soon as I go on holiday in Sept. ;D
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grawrc
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Hectare
Posts: 6,583
Edinburgh
Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 16, 2011, 21:12:00 »
in the cupboard under the stairs in 25k bags. Makes it harder for me to get to the wine >:( but also wellnigh impossible to read the gas meter! ;)
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delboy
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Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 17, 2011, 07:57:25 »
Filing cabinet drawers in garage.
Safe against vermin and easy to access.
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Paulines7
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Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 17, 2011, 09:22:37 »
I put mine in polystyrene food boxes that I get free from my local as they have no need for them once the food has been delivered. I put them on a shelf in the shed. They certainly keep them frost free though I did notice this year that they had sprouted earlier than usual.
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tomatoada
Hectare
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south birmingham
Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 17, 2011, 10:26:43 »
I am putting mine in paper sacs. Using 2 and wrapping them in a blue car cover folded into 4 layers. They are then going on some polystyrene and under the bench in the shed at the lottie. I am just hoping for the best.
No idea if this will be OK. I have such a large crop but it will good if they keep and supply me until next crop.
Let us know what you decide and if it works. Hope this helps.
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Steve.
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Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 17, 2011, 17:15:35 »
We have a cupboard outside our back kitchen door. I will baton this out and insulate it, then hope for the best. I will have our wireless greenhouse thermometer in there over winter...to keep an eye on temps and if need be fetch them into the kitchen overnigh or during prolonged cold spells. I'm hoping that using the cupboard daily should be ventilation enough.
Steve...:)
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Jeannine
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Mapleridge BC Canada
Re: Where do you store your potatoes?
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August 17, 2011, 18:36:18 »
Undergound parking, cool dark but never freezing.
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