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 08-03-2010, 10:28 Post: 172774
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  Storing Onions and Potatoes

We've got the same situation as Yooper, more potatoes and onions, not to mention an abundance of tomatoes, green beans, etc., etc., than ever before. It must have been a good year for everyone with a garden.
When we lived in old houses with a "Cellar" that was always cool the storage of potatoes and onions wasn't much of a problem. We had a potato rack that looked like todays wooden pallets for airflow, and they kept fine till spring when the taters all starred sprouting. Todays houses like ours have warm basements that aren't vegetable storage friendly.
For right now we're eating them fresh plus the kids come after a Wally World bag of fresh potatoes about once a week, they all got real jobs, so no time for a garden.
But to the question about storage, we'll dig the rest after about the first of September and store them in the garage. Our garage is'nt heated, but is insluated and has insulated doors, so it seldom ever freezes in there unless it's 20 below for a coule days and the doors are only open long enought ot get a car in or out. By that time most of the potatoes are used up.






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Yoper;
Same thing happened here, early perfect weather spring. An over enthusastic old geezer that just couldn't quit planting stuff, I didn't mean your're a geezer, just me.
Some of the places my parents lived had a storm/root cellar in back of the house that we kept veggies in well into the winter. You have a good idea about digging one next to a building, that might be a good fall project here too. Nothing fancy just basic storage.






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