The kids and I dug/picked another row of potatoes this morning. This brought about the realization that we had a huge amount of potatoes and no where to store them. I had always planned on putting a potato box down in the storage closet of our basement. It is cool and dark, the closest thing we have to a root cellar. I used some scrap half-inch plywood I had left over from the chicken coop. The box is nominally 48" x 18" x 18", yielding a capacity of approx. 6.75 bushels. I have the box divided in half to provide space for both the red and yukon gold potatoes. As you can see with one row of red's still in the ground the space allotted to them is starting to fill up.
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Potato Storage
The kids and I dug/picked another row of potatoes this morning. This brought about the realization that we had a huge amount of potatoes and no where to store them. I had always planned on putting a potato box down in the storage closet of our basement. It is cool and dark, the closest thing we have to a root cellar. I used some scrap half-inch plywood I had left over from the chicken coop. The box is nominally 48" x 18" x 18", yielding a capacity of approx. 6.75 bushels. I have the box divided in half to provide space for both the red and yukon gold potatoes. As you can see with one row of red's still in the ground the space allotted to them is starting to fill up.
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