How do folk do it? I'm a bit peeved on checking four days after lifting and storing (left them out to dry for a couple of hours as advised by El Flowerdew, but couldn't make the evening go cold) in a cardboard box, to find spots of mildew already and some areas of eww yuk, pus. Squeeze it with a finger and it shhots a good zitsworth.
Do I have to turn it all into shepherds pie topping and freeze it?
cheers
Store in burlap, brown paper, or perforated plastic bags away from light, in the coolest, non-refrigerated, and well-ventilated part of the house. Do not store near onions!
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I use cardboard cartons(closed, but with stabbed ventilation holes). Sacking sacks (potato sacks) are ideal if you can get hold of any. Paper sacks are a bit sweaty, plastic sacks are a complete no-no. You then need a cool frost free airy place to store them.
I'm a bit peeved on checking four days after lifting and
The pus stuff is maybe blight. Blighted potatoes won't store.
Janet
Throw in an apple or two to absorb moisture
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