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happymama58
True Blue Farmgirl
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Patti
Missouri
USA
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 Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 3:21:39 PM
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Where do you store your potatoes? Does anyone keep them in the vegetable crisper? Is that a good or bad idea?
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EmmJay
True Blue Farmgirl
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Mary Jane
Amherst
Nova Scotia
Canada
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Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 4:23:43 PM
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It's not the best idea.
The best way to store potatoes is in a cool, dry, dark place. A wooden box with a little sand in the bottom left in the basement is how folks up here keep them.
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happymama58
True Blue Farmgirl
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Patti
Missouri
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 8:38:05 PM
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I'm guessing the sand draws away the moisture? Thanks for the tip -- I'll give it a try.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 9:58:57 PM
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I need to get a potato box. My parents had one that had a slanted bottom and air holes in the back. The top was on a hinge so it kept it dark and dry. We keep buying potatoes at the store and they keep getting nasty.
Alee
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 10:11:57 PM
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I have a hard time with storing potaotes too. I have tried a couple winters in a row to buy alot on sale in the fall and then store them in the cellar..guess what..by halfway through winter I have foot long roots on all that are left..jeesh! I usually don't buy more than 20 lb ahead now...those I tend to use fast enough.
Jenny in Utah
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Aug 09 2007 : 1:33:32 PM
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I haven't had any luck storing mine from the garden. We do have a basement--ok, a cellar--but it gets damp, and there's this humidity thing, and dark thing and I'm worried that I'll end up with mushy potatoes. Also, I hate the basement.
The gal from Sunflower Sundries told me she digs them, brushes the major clumps of mud off, but not all the dirt and literally piles them on the basement floor of her farmhouse cellar. SHE knows what she's doing, I don't  She said they keep about 6 months that way.
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Storing potatoes
