Curing Potatoes before winter storage
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- Curing Potatoes before winter storage
Here's this week's 5 Minute Friday Gardening Tip. This video will teach you how to cure your potatoes before you put them away for the winter. Don't skip this step. It allows the potatoes to dry and the skin to harden. It also gives the potatoes some time to heal any problems and for any issues like rot or soft spots to show up BEFORE you pack them in a bag or basket for the winter.
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Thank you for this education! Does this apply to sweet potatoes? Thanks again!
Nice videos! Clear direction, nice imagery..., and no long annoying introduction music!! In 5 minutes you cover really nice important details. Thanks for saving me time in having to watch several videos to get the information you shared in 5 minutes!
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Totally...background music is SO hard to deal with when we're trying to learn. Shoutout to the no-music!
Exactly!
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Love that you get straight to the point!!!! Always have valuable information & have a great personality too!
Good stuff man
Glad I found your channel...good stuff. Thanks!
Great video, thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Excellent!
This was really helpful!!!!!
great video! lots and lots of good stuff
Thank you very helpful!
VERY MUCH appreciate the short and right to the point info ! And no distracting, useless music. Wish all videos were done like yours !
Thank you for the lesson.👍
Thank you ... very informative and needed ...
That was a good bunch of information! Thank you.
The last 2 years I stored my potatoes in insulated coolers in a unheated back room. Last year I had better results assuming that I cured them better without moisture buildup like the previous year. I never had sprouting until April/May and used my last potatoes in late July....always stored in the coolers. Note if there is moisture drying the inside is important.
Yes this is a must .
Wow, that's a lot of potatoes. This is my first year and I have 12 plants; should be ready by around Labor Day. Hoping for about 50-60 potatoes minimum, and if that works out, then next year I'll plant a second row!
excellent. i have watched a lot of vids and this is the first time i heard of curing. makes so much sense. thankyou.
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Thanks for this video.
Great info
You're videos are always very useful!
Glad to hear that!
Ty!!
Thank you so much for an informative short video without music and a lot of background noise. Very relaxing to listen to and easy to learn from.😊
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the great info Rick!
You bet!
I love short informative videos! Thx
Glad you like them!
Thank you for learning about potatoes!
That's like fresh garlic- no sunlight for storage!🇺🇸❤️🙏💟
Thanks for addressing a topic seldom covered!!!
good video. Informative, well narrated, while not too long.
Well done!
Thanks,
Love your Channel. Your straight forward approach is for me (smiling softly). Subscribed.
Thank you so much!!
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Awesome. A lot of great info in a short amount of time!👍
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Extremely informative, thanks so much for sharing! Subscribed!
Thanks
THIS IS SO GOOD!!!!! Thank you!!!!! 💯
No problem!!
Thanks for the tips n it makes sence to me about the potatoes setup
Glad to help
Great potatoe wisdom. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for posting this video! I planted some potato seeds and they have started flowering. I know what to do now!
Thank u wrote it all down lol great info
Glad it was helpful!
Very informative video and great advice. Thanks!
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Thank you had trouble last year! Great info. You
rock!
Glad it helped!
Awesome instructions! Thank you!
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Thanks, good job!
Glad it helped!
Rick i do appreciate your honesty of explaining and curing potatoes good job my friend.
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Thanks for the info
Any time!
Thank-you.
Welcome!
Thanks buddy good job
Any time
Great video. I learned so much in just a short time and the information was clearly presented. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent information
Thank You!
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great info. Thank you sir
My pleasure
great video
Thanks!
good gardening info
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Wow, had no idea. Thank you for sharing this. We have a large potato tower thriving right now. Should be a huge harvest. Will cure them for sure. Digging this channel. :)
Glad I could help.
Very direct video. Very educational. Thank you sir.
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My mother buried truck load of carrots and potatoes wrapped in plastic, hay &covered in clay. We had fresh produce all winter late spring
We call it a Clamp where I am from. www.pocketfarm.co.uk/how-to-store-root-vegetables-in-a-clamp/
If a person is in a pinch , plastic grocery bags, poked full of holes, put carrots in , then to a cool dark , damp area .and of course, don't wash the carrots.
I found storing in a basement if you don't have a cellar, with plastic milk baskets, the ones they use to deliver to stores, the plastic is sturdy and durable and the potatoes can " breathe " if you can find them.
We use plastic laundry baskets and they work well too.
thank you
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Thanks for the size sorting tip - excellent!
Glad it was helpful!
@@StoneyAcresGardening I remembered it when I went to the store to buy potatoes this weekend - put the diff sizes in 3 diff paper bags and thought of your post :). Don't have my own yet but still a great pro tip for storing since I live far from stores.
Thank you. I am just getting started.
You got this!
appreciated,to the point quick,to the point informations.Very useful and motivating to young kitchen garden lovers .😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you
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I'm so happy I found this video. I planted a few potatoes 6 weeks ago for the first time.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for very informative video. This is first year I planted potatoes so I am learning a lot from your videos.
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So far I never had a problem, All I did was let them cool an dry for a hour or less in the wind on the grd,
an they stayed fresh for about a year, never even knew they should be as you mentioned,
When I was a kid the farmer would leave them in the field for a day when they had been dug up, then we went and picked potatoes. By the amount of rotten potatoes I’ve been buyin for the past few years, I think they don’t cure them at all anymore, amd it seems they irrigate them too much too, so we are basically buying rotting water. Got a good batch in my garden THIS year!
Until you know it/are told it...it's like rocket science!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, at this point in time, these rocket science lessons are invaluable 👍🏴
My pleasure!
I just watched your curing potatoes video, which was excellent information, thank you. I checked through the videos but couldn't find how to store potatoes. Will it be posted soon? Subbed.
This is how I store mine:
czcams.com/video/gkK8nutbiP4/video.html
Great potato video. I was worried about curing them, but it is doable for us in out tiny garden. We’re planting potatoes next spring.
Did your harvest turn out well ?
Great idea thank u.. My problem is I get them from the store and they almost grow right away... Darn.
Thank you I m doing my potato s today,
Hope you enjoy
Subbed! Nice video! Thanks
Thanks for the sub!
Last year I stacked my potatoes in buckets with some compost. They lasted in them NO problems all winter until spring then they tryed to grow and got rotten in March.
When I was very young we used to just put them in burlap sacks with no extra curing. Oh and fridge potatoes are mostly alright as long as they are not in a freezer.
So helpful! Sifting through all the potato videos that tell you either conflicting information or no information at all. (Put them in the sun for 3 hours to cure, no put them inside with a fan) This is exactly what I needed to know! Thank you for the in-depth and to the point video!
You're welcome
Great video. Many thanks. Gotta find a dark place… 😂too many windows here
Thanks for this:) I read to wash them before curing, thought that was weird
Never wash them, that will just cause them to rot faster.
ourstoneyacres yes, thought that step was inaccurate lol hence I found you :)
Have been able to store mine from October until about the middle of May. Built a mini root cellar with nothing more than a cooler. Drilled holes in it and buried it in one corner of the garden with the top right at the surface. October when I'm harvesting there's lots of dead leaves available, so I'll fill two garbage bags full of leaves to insulate the lid of the cooler. I usually put a board on top of the bags to kind of hold it all in place. The coldest it has gotten so far; In January I had a 34 degree temperature reading. This is in Colorado on the front range. In may I always have left over potatoes sprouting in the bin so I use them to plant again. This years crop will be my third generation. Have been elated that I figured out a way to eat them all winter long.
This sounds brilliant! But where/why do you put the holes? Wouldn't that allow bugs, moisture and heat to enter?
@@wingabouts heat, in the winter ?
I found this by searching and this is great info! I grew potatoes for the first time this year and they didn’t do that great so my yield wasn’t very big at all. Hopefully next year will be better.
I had that same thing happen. : (
I was super disappointed.
Did you use 10 10 fertilizer while planting it makes yelled greater try it you will have wonderful spuds
My father in Ireland used to store his potatoes under a bank of earth in the ground. He would then dig them out as required and close the bank again.
Great idea! I wish I had the space to do something like that.
Thank you. However, I would have appreciated you stating how long they can be stored for. Also, how do I grow more from some of the harvested ones?
After harvest, 2 things before storing potatoes. Never wash them and leave as much dirt on them as you can. I store my potato harvest in shallow wooden slated v shaped containers and they last until I take what I need for the next planting. My favorite variety is Kennebec. I also plant reds for use in potato salads.
I always wash my potatoes and then cure them. Last all winter until spring.
I want to see these v shaped containers, I’m not sure I can visualize what you mean 🤔
Yes every thing you said is how my mom and dad did ti their spuds works great,
@@heavenscenthomestead4242 I leave dirt on them while drying ones dried dirt keep out mosture , ,,,, mosture cause rot, ones going from dry to wet, while not in ground ,
Nice video;)
Thanks
Wonderful videos ourstoneyacres! Keep it up, very informative 🥔🥔🍠🍠
Thank you!!
I use a refrigerator or freezer which is discarded and ready to junk! Dug hole in ground, placed gravel to bottom and around it in a good drainage area. Back filled around it to within inch or two of top. Inside drilled a few 1/4 inch holes to allow drainage if condensation or ? Place potatoes in containers, I use plastic container about 2 gallons each, plastic containers that you purchase a tree or plant in! Cheep and has drain holes. Place in you frig or freezer and shut the door. I laid a waterproof mat over mine which extends past sides! Go out and get some as needed all winter till next harvest season. Depending on your winter freeze depth, you might have to add extra cover or thickness of mats! I'm in WV and I need no extra mats!
My grandma used to do this too. After she died we lost track of where the freezer was. We found it about 10 years later when doing some tractor work. It still had the decomposed remains of her last harvest inside.
Thank you for making this video! I'm growing taters for the first time ever this year, and I've just been consulting the internet for everything I need to know. Your videos are great!
How did they come out ? Any suggestions on what not to do ?
@@fupaface3321 I had lots of them, but many were very small. I know what I did wrong: I needed to remove the rocks at the bottom of my bed so they could grow deeper, and I needed to be more disciplined about piling dirt on top of the greens as they grew.
@@laurengloriana1507 awesome thanks I’m going to try growing some this summer
So logical. I bought some grocery store potatoes last week that were green. Ugh. I have some old painter's cloths that will be perfect for this. They are 36 / 48 inches wide and 8 feet long and made out of natural fiber. Two painter cloths: one on the bottom and one on top would be perfect!
Great idea!!
Hi Rick, thanks for this great video. How do I know when to harvest potatoes? I don't always know if what I plant is determinate or indeterminate or if that even matters.
It's pretty easy to tell when. Here's a video I did a few years ago that explains it:
czcams.com/video/ho7bKHqJsEk/video.html
Good solid advice. I've just cut mine back with the idea of digging up in a few weeks time. Do you or anyone recommend feeding them with fertiliser over the next few weeks
No need to fertilize at this stage. If the tops are dying back they are done growing.
I come from one of the largest potato growing areas of the U.S. and have never heard of curing potatoes. We dug them and hauled them directly to the farmers potato storage, called a (potato house) in Northern Maine. I have been away for way too many years and wonder if this something new or just a regional practice.
I guess a large commercial grower vs a home gardener or a homesteader would have different storage needs and different options I actually grow my garden on my roof in New York City and use potato towers yes if done right they do work
Very good post. One thing you may not be aware of is putting potatoes not fit for storage in the refrigerator. I have found from experience that storing potatoes in the refrigerator changes the starch to sugar and they are sweet. Not very good.
What varieties? We store russet and reds in the fridge all the time and I've never noticed a change. With the damaged ones you have to keep them in the fridge or they will go bad before we can eat them up.
My grandparents were farmers
Around here we put the potatoes on a old blanket directely on the earth and just let it lik that but cover them well at night,leave them outside for couples days and cover and oncover night and days then we get them in and put a bit of fine lime so that theyu don't get rothen in winter timee,we never had any turnind green that way. The green part is when they are growing with not enough earth on them,theey shoul not see the sunlighy when theey grow. Always have my potatoes in a cool storage from end of september to next may or even june.... Once put some on ciment of my garade and forgot them there overnight,they turn all rubberry,were kind of good but not enough for me i just got rid of it ,lucky it was just a gallon.
You said that you turn the potatoes half way through the curring process... What would happen if you put them on a screen to allow airflow all around, instead of turning... They would also cure in half the time since the purpose of turning them is to expose all sides to the air...
Do I need to do the drying out process if I am going to can my potatoes?
Hope you see this question -- Can I blanch and freeze dry or dehydrate right after picking them? Some can, but seems mushy to me. I have only canned potatoes as part of a buffalo stew. TY if you see this and reply
Hey Rick can you explain your pvc irrigation I see in the background? I have pvc to the bed then soaker and I'm having issues with it not soaking well.
I bought a dehumidifier when we had a flooded basement. I wonder if that will help dry mine out. Probably, right? 🤔
These videos are excellent. You are a good public speaker and make a very clear presentation. The only thing you might have answered that you did not was addition of mulch, topsoil, or compost on top of the ground underneath the plants prevent greening of tubers as they grow. I wonder whether the potatoes will continue to grow bigger after the flowering of the plant.
Yes they will continue to grow. Flower just coincides with the first tuber formation, at flowering time the tubers will be small, if you was larger potatoes you will need to wait.
@@StoneyAcresGardening Thanks, I bought some cheap topsoil that was abviously made from old mulch to cover the tubers which are nearest the surface and are showing through the top of the soil and will hold off another two weeks. :-)