How to Store Potatoes

Correct storage will enable you to be self sufficient in potatoes. You can keep potatoes in store until your first earlies arrive.

Never store potatoes in a plastic bag. All that will happenis they will rot in short order. Keep them preferably in hessian sacks that will allow the moisture given off by the potatoes to evaporate.

You really want to avoid keeping them somewhere that gets too hot or cold. 5 degrees is the ideal temperature but never let them freeze or they develop a strange sweet taste.

Keep them dark as well, light encourages greening and this is actually harmful to you to eat. My other tip is to drop a few pellets in the bag in case a slug is hiding in a tiny hole in a potato

Allotment Growing Video Tips

A selection of short videos helping you to grow better with practical hints and tips from John Harrison.

• Starting Garlic in Pots
• Growing Cucumbers in a Pot
• Greenhouse Watering - don't shock your plants!
• How to Hoe - types of hoe and how to use them
• Efficient Watering Saves Water and Gives Better Plants
• Plant Spacing with this cheap measuring stick
• Planting out Leeks
• Propagating Strawberries from Runners
• Sensible Slug Pellets
• Storing Potatoes
• Thinning the Carrots
• Grow Extra Tomatoes from Sideshoots

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