Keeping potatoes

[Monika]

It was Peter's topic of "Making the most of blighted potatoes" which reminded me: I often read of keeping potatoes in hessian or paper sacks (blighted or not blighted!). We have kept our potatoes for many years very successfully in cardboard boxes and find they are much easier to sort, if rotten ones have to be removed. We get lots of the SHALLOW fruit boxes from the supermarket and line them with newspaper, then half fill them with potatoes and cover them with newspapers and write the variety on the side. These boxes are then piled up, often in two piles of six or seven boxes each, usually the early ones at the top, to be used first, and kept in the unheated garage. Every so often we go through all the boxes and throw out any baddies which is no problem because you can see any trouble straight away.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Monika, i must say that's rather a clever idea, and one i feel might now get used by others.