Storing Potatoes Long Term - Save Your Potato Harvest

So you had a great crop of potatoes. Now all you need to do is preserve and store them in order to be able to get the most from that crop. In this video, I am going to show you 4 fantastic ways in which to store your potatoes t last all winter and long into next year. Stay tuned as I'm also going to give you some tips throughout to keep your own potatoes as the seed for next year.

One of the biggest issues that affect some people who grow large numbers of potatoes is storage, Either they do it wrong, or just don’t know how to do it. Following this video will ensure that you will have fresh good quality tubers right through the winter and late into spring.

It’s amazing that its the end of October and I still have potatoes that are green and have not been hit with blight. I really need to get these particular ones out of the ground though as We had our first frost last night and that is the end for these.

Storing potatoes starts at harvest time. You need to lift your potatoes carefully as any damage while doing this means you cannot store that potato as it will rot during storage. Lift your potatoes and ensure not to throw them about, any damage to the skins or bruising will render the potato useless for storing so take your time, be methodical and care about your tubers.

This is another reason why I love growing potatoes in containers. Not only do you get better yields, as per the potato experiment video, And if you have not seen that yet I will put a link in the cards and the description. But you can harvest the potatoes using your hands, no chance of scraping or damaging the tubers with a fork or spade. This is probably the easiest and best way to harvest potatoes

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[tahliel]

I generally store my potatoes on my hips and belly, but I'll give this method a go when I dig up my next crop!

[gig]

My Grandpa used to grow lots of potatoes every year. He would harvest them in August/September. He had an old used chest freezer that he buried in the ground up to the lid and he would put a layer of straw on the floor of the freezer. He would place the potato harvest on the straw and close the lid which was cracked open slightly with a stick for ventilation, and then cover it up with some straw and canvas. The potatoes would keep just fine this way well into the following summer. Oh, and by the way, he lived to the ripe old age of 99! :)

[hyfy-trjy]

My grandfather used to make his "potato lasagna" with clean sand instead of straw. This way there is no decomposition risk from the straw and if one did start to rot the sand would "clot" up any moisture preventing it from spreading. The other benefit is you can reuse the sand over and over

[samradowick]

Best vids out there. Minimal chit chat about irrelevant stuff, clear, concise, visual, enunciated well, broadly applicable. You certainly know your audience. Bravo.

[mori]

The gophers taught me the best way I’ve ever seen to store potatoes. I left some potatoes in a small pile on the dirt floor of my root cellar. Gophers discovered the empty space that the root cellar creates in the ground and used it as a dumping site for the dirt they removed to make their tunnels. Their dump site just happened to be right above the pile of potatoes and so my potatoes ended up being covered with about 8” of dirt. We were gone for a long period of time so when I discovered what had happened, the potatoes had been in my very dark cellar for a year. When I removed the dirt off of the potatoes I was shocked to find that the potatoes were just as firm and moist as the day I dug them with zero sprouting! I live in zone 5.

[jerry]

Here it is 2021, and I'm an experienced gardener. But, when people like you make awesome, educational videos like these, I realize that the learning process never ends. Thank you so much for your very useful tips!! Liked, subscribed and hit the bell :-)

[larrytrujillo]

Tony, Smart people know. Brilliant people teach. Kind people share. All are potential life changing attributes to many of us, but I suspect to you it's just another day. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and kindness.

[markniziol]

Been using 5 gallon buckets with holes drilled all around for air movement and kept in a dark room at approximately 3 to 5 degrees Celsius and have had my potatoes last into april. Saves real estate.

[kristinradams]

I can't thank you enough for sharing this gold mine of information. I have been terrified about the future, as I'm sure everyone else has too, at some point. You, and people like you here on You Tube are helping me feel a little more in control and less afraid. Day by day. I hope this message finds you and yours, including your viewers, safe, healthy and well. Cheers and gratitude from Texas!

[kf]

I'm older but I remember my mother having a potato bin in the basement. It was a 36in. x 24in. and was made out of trellis wood. with about an inch between each slat. Even on the bottom. There was no top. It sat on 2 bricks to add to air circulation for the bottom potatoes.  I really like your instruction and plain to follow it. Thank you for taking the time to explain each process. Oh...The bin was about 30in. high.

[SquishyDingleberry]

Recommended by YouTube in time to store potatoes to get my daughter and myself through the Coronavirus lockdown. 😂 Finally! YouTube gave a good recommendation!

[PetalsonthePavingSlabs]

You will save people a lot of money and heart ache if they follow this advice, nice one Tony thank you.

[simplifygardening]

Folks if you have any questions I am more than happy to help. Please help this video get noticed by clicking the thumbs up and also sharing is caring :) Are you storing potatoes this year? how are you doing it? If your new here don't forget to subscribe. Look forward to chatting with you all during the premier :)

[bobbyboii]

Literally everything i know about growing potato's i learned from watching your videos. Keep up the content man smashing it!

[homebuddha]

I learned a lot from this! I live in Qld Australia summertime I have to refrigerate our potato supply that I buy in a bulk 5 kg bag, sufficient stock for household of only 2 of us. Cooler seasons they can survive unrefrigerated. Anyone who wants to know how to prolong your potatoes in the fridge vege compartment. If you place a few fresh Granny Smith apples bin with your potatoes they last forever without spoiling and spreading. Can’t use any other apples, must be Granny Smith. Can be applied to home grown potatoes too but thought I’d put it out there for large families that buy in bulk who experience in hot climate seasons and their potatoes spoiling in fridge. You won’t lose a single potato stored in your fridge vege crisper to spoiling. Just don’t store in the bags you purchased them in. Remember only Granny Smith apples.love you videos Tony, especially your containing growing tutorial with the wooden grow support K& irrigation, so many handy suggestions in comments from others offering their suggestions to store when I eventually grow my own. It’s wonderful that we all contribute ideas to solve issues & concerns. Thanks everyone!

[vickyannpaintingwithoils]

I am just learning potatoes better this year. The last harvest I had was pretty good. I like to learn a crop on a small scale first, and then plant as much as I think I would like to store or can. This year I have a whole plot dedicated to corn, because I learned by my mistakes the last two seasons. Happy to have found your channel, as I was in search of curing and long terms storage for potatoes. I would love a root cellar, but not sure how to get one put in. God Bless.

[adityasaxena]

In this time of crisis, these tips can save lives. Thank you for sharing friend 🙏🏼 god bless you.

[tbbasketballclips]

I’m in Canada and we get old winters. My mother in law taught me to store potatoes in trays of dirt in a dark cold cellar. You can stack them with news paper in between. This was the way of the Ukrainian Canadian farmer from the 1940’s. Potatoes all winter long for pierogies!

[sallysmith]

I want to thank you for this video on storing potatoes. I just stores my potatoes by putting them in a cardboard box with newspaper between layers. You have showed me a better way in this video that I plan to follow this year. Thank you again.

[memelord]

Just recently learned about the Ruth Stout method, and saw it working very well for potatoes. Haven't tried it for my self, but it looks very promising. No digging, no weeding, very little watering, and very little chance of damaging the potato skin. HIGHLY recommend looking into it to see if it's right for you.