Posted: 4/3/2009 6:01:10 AM EDT
| Well the title says it all. I don't have a root cellar, but my house does have a basement. I've heard dark, cool, with air flow. How do you get all of these? Pics are worth a thousand words... |
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For potato storage do not wash or rinse the soil off the spuds...this is very important. Store them in a dark, cool (basement is good). Store them in anything that isn't airtight. Potatoes will give off some gas, (not harmful that I know). I prefer to store them in boxes of 10 to 15 pounds. I generally harvest about 80 pounds of spuds a year. |
| Most people I know store them in there barns or sheds off the the ground. By making a wood frame about the size of a door then attach screen material. Same material you use to screen in a porch. Set the ends on top of some bricks where it will be about a foot of the ground. the screen allows air flow and being off the ground helps keep them from rotting. If this doesn't make any sense IM me and I'll come back and rewrite this. |
