[Welsh Merf]

Now then, I've read everywhere that one should store spuds in hessian sacks, in a cool place where no light can get at them.

What is your opinion on paper sacks for storing spuds?

My storage areas are limited to the relatively small shed on the allotment and a garage attached to the house (which would be preferable).

Thoughts please! Many thanks!

[digger1]

Hessian sacks allows air to curculate, paper sacks don't, also they must be stored in a dry and frost free place so the garage would be the best place

[mumofstig]

Mine store happily in cardboard boxes in the lean-to brick shed at the back of the house which stays above freezing.
A wooden allotment shed would let the spuds freeze and spoil  

[Welsh Merf]

Ah! The good people of Kent come to my rescue first! 

Many thanks!

[DD.]

Paper sacks are fine. It's not so much about circulation of air as letting them breath. This they can do in paper sacks, but not plastic.

[gremlin]

I store mine in paper potato sacks in the garage.  (10p each from the farmers shop)  I only fill the sacks about 1/3 full and I also leave the top of the sacks wide open.    The sacks are on an old wooden pallet so the air can circulate  under them.   Works fine for me.

The only joke is that the sacks have "British Quality Potatoes" in big red letters, which is probably a breach of the Trade Description Act in my case !

[grinling]

I use the chook feed sacks, so if you have chooks at the allotment ask the keepers.

[Aunt Sally]

Hessian sacks here.  We're still eating last years crop - about 3/4 of a sack left.  They have kept well, not sprouting yet.

[Sparkyrog]

under what conditions do you keep your sacks in Aunty ?

[Aunt Sally]

In our garden shed.  It's a big shed and fairly frost free. 

They are covered with more sacks and a blanket and checked through regularly.

[Sparkyrog]

Hmm mine always start sprouting beginning of feb but can see no difference in our storage methods 

[Aunt Sally]

Where do you keep them ?

[yaxley]

keep mine in thick cardboard boxes 2 pushed together think they are bannana boxes and keep them in the shed which dont get too cold as it,s sheltered from the weather by a conifer hedge had no problems with them still have half a box left and there ok not sprouted yet ..

[Sparkyrog]

Paper sacks on a pallet in my garage that get's used as anything but lol

[lettice]

I use Hessian sacks in a small shed outside.
I think you just have to be careful that the paper sacks do not get damp and stuffy. The hessian gets them aired and so reduce that.
I have my maincrop from last year all stored nicely like that. Just picked out some lovely roosters stored this morning.

I always leave them to dry for half a day in the dry outside after digging them up, but leave the mud on, then store them in the hessian sacks. Never had a bad one yet.