How to Store Potatoes | At Home With P. Allen Smith
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- Опубліковано 9 сер 2012
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Allen loves to grow his own potatoes, and this year was a bumper crop for spuds! Watch, as he shows you how to store your extra potatoes, so they stay fresh until the following spring.
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P. Allen Smith is an award-winning designer and lifestyle expert and host of two public television programs, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens. Smith is one of America's most recognized and respected design experts, providing ideas and inspiration through multiple media venues. He is the author of the best-selling Garden Home series of books published by Clarkson Potter/Random House, including Bringing the Garden Indoors: Container, Crafts and Bouquets for Every Room and P. Allen Smith's Seasonal Recipes from the Garden. Allen is also very active on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Allen's Blog and UA-cam as well as on the new eHow Home channel debuting January, 2012. His design and lifestyle advice is featured in several national magazines. Learn more at www.pallensmith.com. - Навчання та стиль
We have a bin down cellar. We kept potato's all winter. We also had a bin for the carrots, all sotred in fresh sand for the year. We braided onions and stored them in the attic. They lasted all year.We also had an out house. :-)
This is a really good video on potato storage. There are SO many potatoes that are simply unavailable in the grocery stores. If you want gourmet flavor growing your own and storing them is the only way!
Potatoes were on sale for Easter so I bought some and then put them on my husband's new shelves he built but hasn't started using yet. ;) I have plans to make myself a set of shelves soon...hopefully before hubby notices my potato stash.
As a kid my dad's uncle owned a potato farm so we had plenty of potatoes to store. We actually stacked up about six or seven layers of potatoes on pallets in the basement. We would leave room around the edges of each one for the support of the next layer and sprinkled lime on them also. It works great and only takes up the space of one pallet.
you know, I've never had a problem with this but it's a good point. I hope I don't have a problem with this in the future!
I would want to panel the ceiling to keep the fiberglass out of my food too.
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@William Doubleu Have you tried getting insulation fibers off of things before. It's not very 1-2-3-ish.
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This is such a smart set-up. I wish my crawl space was that tall!
Great info. What if you don’t have a root cellar? Suggestions on what to do long term then? I’ve seen a few ideas but was curious what you might suggest.
Do you have to worry about pests with this setup? Do insects, mice or worms, ect. like potatoes?
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I placed bumper crop of potatoes in wood crates lined with burlap and sand between rows of potatoes. Lifted off the ground by 2x4s and even covered, rats infested my crawl space spoiling my potato storage. I did check every week or so as I pulled potatoes for use and didn't see rat/mouse droppings or signs of their presence. They managed to tunnel under the crates that were on 2x4s and ate through the bottom crate and feasted all winter. NEVER again will I store potatoes in crawl space. It's taken me a couple of years to rid the space of rats. I now store root crops in my tornado safe room. When temps dip to 20's I bring them inside then back outside again when temps get warmer. The 20* temps are infrequent here in the south.
A friend mentioned storing lime with potatoes for extending the harvest. Please tell me how that works, how do you use lime?
so potatoes like slight cool were winter slushes like stay warm or room tempter ?
Im going to make potatos now.
well that is convenient that you have a large underground crawlspace for them. someday I might learn how to actually keep them for longer than a couple weeks in a normal house with no basement.
Good idea, though I wouldn't want all that weight on my floor joists! Take the "uprights" all the way to the ground and let them rest on a paving stone!
You should try pressure canning your potatoes. I'm gonna use your method and get a good stock of taters. That should save space and preserve longer. Much less rot issues.
all of us may not be blessed with space and facilities like Mr.Allen..a simple tip from India.. put some garlic pods in a well ventilated basket...preferably a cane one
How do you keep out mice?
Store potatoes underground? I saw an article on Yahoo! where they said to store your potatoes in the dishwasher! You mean to tell me you are smarter than Yahoo!? :-)
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Do you wash your potatoes after picking them? A lot of people say you shouldn't because it'll keep them longer.
Great idea, wish I had the space to suspend shelves. Is it ok to store them in cardboard/fiber barrels with layers of hay/straw/shredded paper/sawdust, ??? thanks.
nah man. they will grow legs and start attacking people
Potato salad city..great way to store them.
What about mice? How do you ensure that’s not an issue?
Does that sunlight entering from that window cause sprouts? I always store mine in a cool dark place.
What about rodents and pests that may discover the potatoes - would that be a concern? Thanks
Was that insulation just above the taters?
you fail to mention the temp outside, we are under snow all winter
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HE DIDN'T GRAB THE ONE HE SAY HE'D GRAB FIRST. WTF
Like the idea of this, but not a fan of the exposed insulation over the top row. Otherwise a great use of space.
The insulation shown looks like fiberglass batt. It may not be sterile, but at least the fiberglass and rock wool used in most insulation is not toxic unless you inhale the particles. I am sure he is also planning on WASHING the potatoes before they are eaten, since most potato storage recommendations that I have seen recommend that the potatoes are not to be washed after you dig them out of the dirt if you want to store them for a while.
Help! I just bought five bags of potatoes a few weeks ago and they just sprouted on me. What did I do wrong?
Caged bought 5 bags of potatoes you weren’t going to use before they went rotten... that’s what you did wrong.
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I live in San Antonio. Whats a cellar or basement? :) Gets pretty hot around here. How to store taters in 85-100* weather?
I live in FL and wonder the same thing.
jksatte its an area under your house, if your house is built on stilts chances are you have an underground room if its built on a ground foundation then you don't have one
you can keep them in a bucket in a closet as long as you have ac, check weekly or you can get a container and fill with sawdust...also try to keep as much dirt on them as you can when you pick them don't wash them works for carrots too
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My house has a crawl space but you literally have to crawl under the house. There is no other access and I won't be doing that lol.
I understand the closet but I want to try and create some type of cold room. You know have a room for food storage that can be kept cold enough to use like one would a root cellar or a basement. Is that reasonable? Would it be cost prohibitive? I don't know.
dig a hole in your back yard in the shade at least 6 feet ,,get a barrel and bury the barrel in the hole or dig into the side of a hill and place an ole box y t has lots of ideas for underground storage good luck
storing cost is greater than importing it!
Can you send me some?
Potatoes like to be kept cool and humid, not cool and dry.
A "cool and dry" place would describe a refrigerator. Would that work if only storing 5 lbs or so?" Anybody?
+rek550 your frig isn't dry. a closet or pantry works though.
No potatoes will loose firmness.
Yikes! Storing potatoes near fiberglass insulation? You would never do that if you ever had to sit and watch a loved one die a slow and very painful death from cancer. I have with my dad.
Never go in a room of insulation with out long sleeves, eye protection and a mask. And personally, I would never store food items for my family in a room that I have to suit up in liked I worked at the CDC with biohazard materials.
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MrYoubrian I'm sorry for your loss, but fibreglass insulation is not specifically cancer causing, at least no more than other nontoxic particulates. Industrial, construction, and manufacturing workers in regular daily contact may need dust masks or respirators, but those are levels of exposure where any breathable contaminant might pose a health risk. While I wouldn't suggest handling fibreglass insulation without at least gloves and eye protection- because holy hell you only make that mistake once- rotten potatoes in an enclosed crawlspace are more dangerous than the wall stuffing.
Next video. How to build a cellar
his guy looks an awful lot like Christopher Nolan. Cool.
f with the pandemic . how u can do this in apartment?
You don’t have to worry about bugs?
What about Rats?
I don't have a crawl space....I'm on the 9th story of a high rise. If I buy a potato I usually eat it then.
then why watch a video on storing potatoes on this scale?
How many potatoes does that man eat?
Jsalrulz ever hear of the potatoe diet? he could be one of the crazies. :)
+Jsalrulz Funniest comment I have seen all evening!
+Jsalrulz potato salad, potato soup, fried potatoes, potato chips, mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes, baked potatoes, sauteed potatoes, potato wedges, french fries, hash browns, tatter tots. potato burgers, potato gumbo, potato dumplings, potato skins
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you have a danger there and that is exposed fiberglass-and you are breathing that-wow better get that enclosed to protect your lungs.
I am wondering if rodents eat these potatoes? Understanding the cool temps help keep them longer...mice? Just a thought..and a question...
Dude I live in an apartment
pinkivy93 u can pick a closet in your apartment and build and install a nice wooden shelf - up off the floor. 0 light and as cool as u can make it. I've actually done this in a tiny apartment before.
Sheila Young thank you so much for the tip!
Most potatoes in this video are green. Green potatoes are unsafe to eat.
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has anyone else heard that you shouldn't store potatoes and onions in the same place? I heard that the fumes from one will rot the other.
Onions I don't know about. But apples stored with potatoes will cause the potatoes to sprout.
+blosom2315 I've not heard the storage but I have heard you should not grow the two near one another.
this little old lady once told my father that you should grow onions on top of potatoes because the onions would make the eyes on the potatoes water, hence having self watering potatoes lol
LOL that's good. Love it!
+blosom2315 Yep, learned it the hard way, Once I stored potatoes and onions in a fruit basket on top of a cantilever style shelf in my kitchen, After a few weeks I always thought that there's a leak on my kitchen floor when I often see smelly liquid on the floor but just couldn't figure out where the leak is. One day I suddenly looked up and there it is rotten potatoes and onions combined to create that horrible fluid which kept dripping on to the floor, so I can CONFIRM that statement is 100% CORRECT :-)
If you're going to build a crawl space why not build a basement? code? hmmmm...
thats great so if you don't have a seller or 'crawl space' then your screwed. next time don't just give advice to those with crawl spaces, because not everyone has one.
There's no problem with green potatoes, you just need to remove the green part.
No!! The mice would get to them before the humans would!! 😑
How do you keep out mice?