Freshly dug earlies.

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Kleftiwallah

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Freshly dug earlies.
« on: August 11, 2021, 11:10 »
Just dug up our few Maris Peer and Charlotte spuds, do I wash them then air dry to harden the skins or do I do the reverse?  Luvery looking spuds, planted just below the surface then mulched with leaves and shredded paper!

Cheers,   Tony. :D
I may be growing OLD, but I refuse to grow UP !

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crh75

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Re: Freshly dug earlies.
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2021, 11:43 »
Best not to wash them until you are going to eat them.  Dry them off then store, ideally in hessian sacks.
The spuds I'm harvesting at the moment I wash straightaway so I'm bringing less mud into the kitchen but they going to be eaten within a week, when I harvest the storers, they'll not get washed. 

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Re: Freshly dug earlies.
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2021, 17:35 »
when we dig our early potatoes we let them dry then bag them up in paper sacks and store them in a cool dry place that excludes most of the light we had to dig most of our early potatoes in the raised beds because the slugs had started to have a feast but there in paper sacks and are keeping well we do not wash any of our potato crops as they tend to go green


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