Last Autumn we had more potatoes than we could store so I covered what was left in the ground with a thick layer of home made compost and covered that with cardboard. I have dug some up today. They haven't been passed as fit for human consumption as yet by the Home Food Standards Agency (wife) but they look fine to me.
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What you've created is a basic form of root clamp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_clamp
It's a traditional method of storing root veg. Most people will now bring them into a cool dark place over winter like the garage or frost free shed. The benefit of bringing them inside is that it's easy to tell if you have a bad spud which can then be isolated so as not to rot the others.
If they look good then I'm sure they will be
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