I’m harvesting some of my potatoes but also leaving some in the ground for long-term storage WITHOUT a root cellar!
Storing potatoes using this method can keep them good all the way through the winter.
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We can keep canna roots in-ground here in 7a – sometimes we get down to 5F, but not every year. I take in enough rhizomes to replant in case of a hard winter, but otherwise, the next year's seed and enough starch to feed a small army survives in ground throughout the winter.
I live in SW Washington. Would wood chips be a good insulator throughout the winter for the potatoes?
This is an awesome video !
This year My potatoes are going to sit in the garden for a while.
I will watch the Moisture in the soil and the temps .
Love the Video's !
I remember when I was a kid. I stayed with an elderly friend of my mother. It was in the fall of the year. One day she got a bag of potato peelings from the drawer of her fridge. She said come on we're going to plant potatoes!! I laughed ,but followed her and helped. Well in the spring I went to stay with her. She said come on we're going out to dig potatoes . Of course I laughed and followed. We raked the straw back dug down in and. Guess what we found? Potatoes I was so surprised 😮. My mom had told me if Nora says it will work. You can count on it.
Very helpful info! Thank you!
If I kept potatoes in-ground into the winter, I’d have a remarkable pile of mush. Location matters.
would cardboard work as cover?
We don’t have a root cellar but keep all of our potatoes in sacks
Thanks, Melissa! Great content as usual!!
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No they won't turn to mush. I leave potatoes under mulch on the surface of the ground all winter long. I use a Ruth Stouth heavy much no dig system. They start growing in the spring when it warms. Its plenty cold here. Zone 5b with a USDA frost depth of 30+inches.
I wonder if this would work, if you grow in 5 gallon buckets then take them in the garage when the plant died off and just take the entire bucket into a garage? It would be out of the rain/snow and the garage almost never freeze's.
Thanks for any information
Love love love this topic and the way you present. Not look at me I’m so cute, strictly informational, packed with tidbits. I suspect you are gardening in WA?
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My grandparents banked sweet potatoes and red potatoes. Burying them in layers of hay and covering with dirt.
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You’re just amazing love your garden 🙂 I use wheat straw in my garden. I have an organic farmer I get large round bales. I live in a chemical waste land so I get a garden the years my neighbors don’t spray me. It’s like living in a war zone every year. You must get straw from organic farmer. The chemicals stay in the ground for months and the wheat or whatever they’re growing exhorters The chemicals through the Roots. Most people that are suffering from IBS just need to stop eating poisonous wheat. When Japan says at the G7 conference they don’t want are poisonous grain full of pesticides. We should stop and think should we be feeding it to our kids? The chemicals nearly killed me has destroyed my life and my animals. As everyone around me says it’s safe. I’ve documented for years that it’s not. It’s a slow death for us all. Go organic grow your own food grow something worth eating😊
Zone 3, several feet of frozen ground here 😏
Is that Mullens behind you?
My aunt use to dump her taters on the floor of the root cellular to cure. I use to love to help her. Good times!
If your stored potatoes start to shrivel up and sprout but you're too far away from planting time, you can gently rub off the sprouts and submerge your potatoes in a bucket of water to rehydrate them. An hour or more would be good, depending on how shriveled they are. Then take your potatoes out of the water and lay them out to dry on the serface then store them again. You can "keep" your potatoes until you plant or even till you harvest your crop after summer!! Yes. So if you harvest and store your potatoes correctly and you monitor them, you can keep your potatoe for a whole year! Use your smaller one to plant as seed and pick out any that starts to rot, it will spread. If potatoes are left stored in water on their surface, they will rot. You can use a fan to dry them but you do need to keep your humidity up or submerge them in water. I live in potatoe country and everyone here knows how to keep potatoe. We have to, we supply many french fry plants ALL YEAR. If your cellar is a little warm, you can set barrels in the coolest corner and add straw and insulate your potaoes from the warmer air. I keep mine in my celler in several potato barrels and when I get some to replentish my box up stairs in the kitchen, I just give them a quick look to make sure everthing it a-okay. We never havecto buy potaoes here or grow them, we just go to the fields around our houses AFTER the farmers dig them. With permission from the farmers, we go and "clean" the fields from potatoes that dropped over the harvesters and the farmers like that, less volenteers that grow next year and we grow A LOT of seed potaotes for the whole east coast. They dont like volunteers mixing in their seed. We live in zone 4 and get very cold winters where the ground freezes solid! 30° to 40° below and yes, some can accually survive the winter up here. Great video! 😉
I forgot what zone and state you live in?
A shade tree black plastic and cover
How do you keep rodents away?
78" of rain? Holy Moly!
In Ireland we used to dig the potatoes and put them in pits, which were about 2ft high and as long as you wanted. Then they covered them in rushes and then a lair of soil about 4 to 5 inches thick. That kept them all winter.
Hi thanks for sharing. May I ask how do you deal with soil microorganisms and worms eating the potatoes or potatoes rotting?
Unfortunately straw is a sponge for the Round Up they use in wheat fields…
That land is so pretty with the mountain in the background. It's soul food. If Washington state's gov wasn't so wacked, I'd move there in a flash.
Could you store potatoes in crawl space under the house? Is that a crazy idea??
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What about the moles and voles? I struggle with them 😩
What about potatoes that were grown in tubs? Can they stay in the tubs until needed or do I need to harvest and cure?
We had an old freezer buried in the ground. All our root crops were dug and put into the freezer. I can’t do that where I live now because the water table is to high. Covering with leaves or straw has been a great method most winters.
Do you find any mice eating your potatoes over the winter?
Thanks for all this great information. I’m an Oregonian and it rains a lot here.