[BML]

The foliage on my Potatoes is quite high, the slugs, if slugs they be appear to be devouring the Potatoes so I wonder if its time to pick them and store them.
The only problem is that I thought that Potatoes needed to be in a dark environment and the Potato sacks I bought last year appeared  to be such a lose mesh that they let light in.  On top of that I thought that Potatoes needed to be in a cool environment and my garage gets rather warm.

I would welcome any advice. 

[Kleftiwallah]

I would go down to your local greengrocer and beg a few potato bags (brown paper jobs).  Far better than sacks.  Leave the spuds on top of the soil for a couple of hours max' as this allows the skins to toughen up and will store better.  Only store good spuds, no green bits, holes or the ones you have stabbed.  Tip them all out to inspect, don't just take from the top.

Cheers,   Tony.

[Headgardener22]

I store them in the green melon boxes you can get from the supermarket. Newspaper underneath and on top to stop the light, then you can stack them up on top of one another. It also means that you can check through them occasionally more easily than searching through sacks of potatoes, just in case some of them go off.

[mumofstig]

I store them in cardboard boxes in my brick lean-to shed - they're stacked on wood to keep their bottoms dry

[Mrs Bee]

My first question on the site was about what was eating my spuds.

Since then we keep ours in canvas sacks in metal dustbins elevated on bricks and with small holes drilled in for airation. We keep the bins in the garage. Being in a metal bin stops the rodents moving in and noshing the spuds.

[BML]

Many thanks for all that.

[suziequeue]

We grow our spuds in old feed sacks. When the halums start dying back we cut them off and move the sacks into the composting toilet where they sit until needed. This is the first year that we have done it and it works well so far.

Whe we need/want potatoes we just tip a sack out into a wheelbarrow. It's like a lucky dip bran tub then