Potato storage advice?

[Stan79]

Hi all,

Any top tips on storing potatoes? I've got a busy year with work this year so parred down the range of veg i'm growing and have a lot of spuds to store into the winter... Any advice on how to keep them in tip top condition?

Thanks,

Stan

[Scarlet]

I store mine in paper bags or covered trays in a dark, cold outbuilding. Rats and mice will nibble them so your set up needs to be vermin proof. I've also stored in large polystyrene boxes and that worked well. Just keep checking that they are dry, take out any that start to go soft.

[roitelet]

Paper sacks or cardboard boxes in the cool, frost free, dark. Check them from time to time and rub off any shoots and remove any suspect ones.

[Snadger]

I used thick cardboard boxes last year to good effect. Tried the brown bags but outer spuds went green and finished up as seed tatties for this year.

If i didn't think i would have keel slug problems (a few in my earlies) they always seem to taste better dug as required. Tried a potato clamp one year to good effect also!

[Penellype]

I've stored potatoes in bags or buckets in the garage in their original bucket, although I do worry about slugs, and I also prefer to see how many I have, but they do keep ok like that. My preferred method is thick paper bags in the garage - I dry the potatoes in a tray for a day before storing so that they are not put away damp.

[Potstubsdustbins]

I use potato hessian sacks hung from the ceiling of a windowless shed.

[Thelma Sanders]

Mine go in cardboard boxes in the brick outhouse, works ok but I don't have loads of mains to store.

[MarkPelican]

Mine go in cardboard trays, the melon boxes from the supermarket are the best. They stack up and you can check them for potatoes going blighted unlike hessian sacks.

[1Bee]

Good advice here... storage is always a nightmare here. We do have a cellar, which is frost-free, and the only cool, dark place we have access to. Unfortunately it's also excessively damp and mouldy... Hmmm...

[Snadger]

Good advice here... storage is always a nightmare here. We do have a cellar, which is frost-free, and the only cool, dark place we have access to. Unfortunately it's also excessively damp and mouldy... Hmmm...

...............and full of carp!

[vixylix]

Same problem 1bee - I store mine in the corner of the dining room, which gets very little natural light as its 'room-locked' - they do start sprouting but they last a while before they do