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Originally Posted by 1shotwade
put them in 5 gallon pails with sand. make sure they are not touching and layer them. Keep for months.  |
They stay a little fresher if you put a damp, not wet, sponge on the top of the sand and cover the pail/tub/box loosly.
Keep then as close to 40f/5c as you can.
You want to, as close as possible, duplicate the conditions underground.
In the old days root cellars did this because they had dirt floors, (no flooring), they were underground, and walled with timbers.
In Holland they store potatoes by piling them in the garden and covering them with soil. They have a warmer climate, it doesn't freeze hard there.
It would work here if we could dig them up when we want to but here it freezes too hard.
One fall we didn't get all the potatoes in uncles garden. When we rototilled in the spring we kept turning up potatoes the looked fresh. So we tasted one, it was as good as it was in the fall so we collected all we could and feasted for weeks.
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