Anybody saving seed tatties?

[coreopsis]

I'm thinking about saving some potatoes for planting next year- in cardboard box,covered with newspaper,placed in the cupboard under the stairs(cold and dark but frost free),might throw an apple in to prevent from sprouting(old wives tale).
Anybody tried to "save their own"?

[solway cropper]

Lots of people save seed potatoes and quite a few plant sprouted shop-bought spuds but not me personally. I like to be sure that what I'm planting is disease-free.

This year I spent under £18 on seed and got back 200lbs of lovely spuds, many of them first earlies when they cost an arm and a leg in the shops. Money well spent, I'd say.

[zazen999]

My neighbour at the lottie saves them because he is always worried that he won't get the same type as they are quite a rarity.

Luckily Garden Organic do them [that's where I found them first] and so does a little nursery in Leicestershire....so we have his saved ones as back up.

All our 3 lotties next to each other all grow them now; so whoever finds them first gets a job lot and we share them out between us.

[Snadger]

Kestrel did really well for me this year so rather than buy my usual mixed batch of seed tatties I'm keeping the ones that were near the suface and greened up a bit for seed. I'll still buy some next year though.

[coreopsis]

That's what I thought Snadger.Either greenish ones or smaller tatties.I'll try to overwinter mine and see if they'll be fine.If not then next year I'll probably get some seed tatties locally-this year I ordered them online and postage was very expensive.

[vicky]

I'm saving some Blue Danube as they resisted the blight fairly well and I have quite a few smallish undamaged ones. They managed to avoid the eelworm damage the others suffered from too so I'm very happy with them! (And they got me a first place in our local show!)

[Flummery]

I'm saving the ones I grew from True Potato Seed last year. The tubers did ok this year but not brilliantly as it was so dry here - and there's only a water tank filled from the church roof run-off at the allotments. And when it doesn't rain we have no water!
Still, I have them in poly bags in the salad drawer of my fridge. You need to check regularly that they are still dry. If you get a bit of moisture in they'll rot.

[Two_Sheds]

Same as last year, I have some Yetholm Gypsy and Pink Firs in the salad drawer of the fridge: they'll stay there until March when I plant them out

[coreopsis]

I can't put mine into the fridge-salad drawers are not big and I wouldn't have the space to keep my eating veg.

[realfood]

I save seed of my heritage varieties in a cool, dark place. However, you have to save Mayan potato seed in the fridge, as they have a very short dormancy period and are already sprouting.

[Paulottie]

I am only saving Rattes as the seed is expensive and Mrs P smuggled them back from France for me (as they were unavailable here last season.) I'll save them in the fridge.

[StephenH]

I may save some of my Pink Fir Apple. I believe they are sluggish sprouters, so should be relatively easy to save. I keep them in a cool, dark place anyway, so no need to do anything except make sure I don't eat 'em all.