My vines were all dead and dry about a week ago. I dug them early this year due to so much rain that mine were starting to get scabby. I dry mine and put in pails in our garage until about November when it gets cold enough to start freezing. I have several flat boxes where I lay the potatoes in and then put those flat boxes in our basement. They will start sprouting about later January or February. For me the key is dry and not piled together. That way if you have one bad one you can get rid of it right away. I also process a lot of them into hashbrowns and freeze them. I also make a lot of lefse that I can freeze as well. I am surprised at how long I can keep the potatoes even at about 60-65 degrees.


Bryce

if any are compromised they will rot

any not compromised will be fine

when I used to pant a lot of potatoes we would dig when dried up vines

we had good no holes or cracks for storage

and anything that had a bad spot or got damaged in digging that we tried to use up right away

Ten plants? It's not like you're talking 100's of lbs of taters.

Yep!!! We don't use many potatoes in a year's time but what I get I want to be able to use. So, I had a question about storing is that Okay with you?
Thanks

OOH, I have been chastised. I really feel like you already knew the answer to a stupid question.

We eat alot of potatoes and wish we could store them longer. Onions are what I really wish I could store. We go through onions like they are going out of style but none of the short day onions that'll bulb up in the south keep worth a durn. Most of what we can grow are best used as fresh onions straight out of the garden. The best I've grown are the white bermuda and granex types. We get about three months at best storing them. Best has been to braid and hang like garlic. Bermuda stores longer. The granex types are the same as vidalias and just to juicy to dry down and store.

Softneck garlics do well, though.

Warrior can you grow Sweet Spanish yellow onions that far south? I have grown this type for decades and let them mature. I wait until the tops are dry, then pull and tie about 1 dozen per bunch and hang in our basement. I can get about 4 months by doing it that way. I pull and use as needed while growing also.

Bryce

The only ones that size up well are the two mentioned. I've tried two that are supposed to be storage types for the south Australian Brown and Creole Red but a can only get those in seed and I've had poor luck getting them going. I can start them indoors but getting them to the size to set out eludes me.