[crowndale]

Is it better to store spuds (maincrop) with or without the mud on, ie do I need to wash them before storing?  Have just dug mine up, a little early due to blight.

[WG.]

Washing them seriously reduces the storage time.

[crowndale]

OK, thanks.  I did think that, though only because the mud covered spuds my mum bought in the 60's seemed to last for months where the shop bought washed ones I have bought are sprouting within a week usually.

[shaun]

reading johns diary about his blighted spuds it realy is bad this year,as ive said before I store mine in mushroom boxes and not sacks this way you can check over them much easier,you just need to throw something over them like a blanket or dust sheet, same goes for onions
here some i dug yesterday

you can pick these up from behind your local chippy,restraunt,hotel,supermarket etc they only throw them away  

[crowndale]

That looks a good method of storage.  At the moment I have sacks and only have enough spuds this year to keep one sack in the utility room cupboard.  (plus one with the remains of the earlies in it). next year I am hoping for more like your numbers of spuds so will be on the lookout for mushroom trays I think.