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O/T How do you store taters

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old

07-23-2006 16:17:46




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I just dug up my taters today and now I have to figure out how to store them. I don't have a root celler and the well house doesn't work either rats/mice take off with them. So how do you store them??
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Butcher

07-24-2006 19:15:54




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to old, 07-23-2006 16:17:46  
Keep them in the coolest, darkest place you can. the wife and I raise alot of tators for just 2 people. They keep fine until Christmas. Then we start peeling and cutting them into frenck fries and hash browns. Partially cook in the turkey frier, freeze on cookie sheets, bag in big ziplocks and put in the freezer. The best way if you dont mind the work is to can them. Taste great and ready to eat along with some canned deer or beef.

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Tom in Mich

07-24-2006 09:22:13




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to old, 07-23-2006 16:17:46  
My dad and I used to dig a hole in the side of a small sand hill (good drainage) and lay down some straw, put in taters or winter squash, cover with some more straw and about 18" of sand and they would keep throughout the winter and well into spring.

Tom



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Keith-OR

07-23-2006 22:38:38




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to old, 07-23-2006 16:17:46  
You should have just left them in the ground and covered the area with couple inches of straw. Then dig up as you needed. Now you need to find a place that is cool and moist.

The big potatoes storage sheds here use big water coolers, pipe the moist air in through clovert pipe under the pile of spuds.

Get an old chest freezer, cut the bottom out then bury it in ground where the lid is flush or little above grade. You need the dirt bottom to maintain moisture for potatoes.HTH

Keith & Shawn

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john *.?-!.* cub owner

07-23-2006 19:26:36




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to old, 07-23-2006 16:17:46  
Don't wash them. A cool place works best, but I have known people to wrap them in newspaper snd store them under beds. of course that was before we hand nice central heat, and most bedrooms weren't heated.



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Davis In SC

07-23-2006 20:03:54




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to john *.?-!.* cub owner, 07-23-2006 19:26:36  
Better keep them Taters out of the bedroom, they have eyes... LOL... 8^)



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Coloken

07-23-2006 18:38:29




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to old, 07-23-2006 16:17:46  
Saw that buried freezer and straw bales bit done a few years back. I ate taters out of it over a year old.



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hay

07-23-2006 17:15:27




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to old, 07-23-2006 16:17:46  
i use an old washpot. put down a layer of dirt and then a layer of taters and keep building it up like. then cover with old newspaper and finally top with heavy plywood to keep animals from digging in. they usually keep most of the summer like that. a cool place is best.



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NEbobcat

07-23-2006 16:47:50




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to old, 07-23-2006 16:17:46  
take an old fridg, bury it door side up. store spuds in it an cover with straw bails. your good for the winter



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rodgernbama

07-23-2006 16:30:42




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 Re: O/T How do you store taters in reply to old, 07-23-2006 16:17:46  
We stored ours in the barn in the seed bin which was a stall with a floor in it. My granddad always sprinkled lime on his to help preserve them.



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