Potatoes from the garden in or out of the fridge?

Greetings from windy Shoreham-by-Sea!

That's it, really. I only want to keep them a few days, then they'll be goners, but wonder if best to keep them in or out of the fridge.

By the way, if anyone sees this who saw my last post about tomatoes, they're coming on wonderfully now; we'll be swimming in them soon!

Many thanks

Neil

 

Not sure the fridge is good for spuds.
But keep them in the dark.

 

Cool, dark, and dry is key. I haven't grown spuds for a while. It's cheaper and less fuss to buy a 25kg sack from the farm, but the first few times I did that, the spuds towards the bottom of the sack were going rotten by the time we got down to them. So here's my trick now, which works very well.

With a sack of freshly harvested spuds, I pour them all out, the whole lot, all over the kitchen floor. I then stick some scrunched up old newspaper in the bottom of the sack. I then put maybe 5kg of spuds back in. Then a layer of old newspaper, then another approx 5kg of spuds, and so on. The layers of old newspaper between the spuds absorb any excess moisture this preventing the spuds from rotting. The paper also keeps light off the spuds beneath, which is a great benefit when you live with someone that can't comprehend the notion that light makes spuds turn green and poisonous.

 

Thanks all. That's it, of course, in the dark. And will certainly try that clueless1. Apropos your last sentence I think I may have one of those!