Digging up our main crop potatoes -

Making a start, getting our main crops ready to store for future use. 


We are digging up some of the main crop potatoes, but not digging them all up at once. The reason for this is that, we do not want to leave them in the ground for too long in case of slug damage.  But we do want to harvest in small enough batches to  prepare them for storing in hessian or paper sacks. This means we need to leave them in the garden to dry ( we put ours on trays or wire racks), the when they are dry and the loose soil is off them we will bag them up into the hessian sacks or paper potato sacks to store.  


Any damaged potatoes should be used up straight away, as they are no good for storage purposes. We also label up the sacks as which to use first if some look more prone to not storing well.
Even once we have stored them away in a frost proof place we will still check the sacks regularly, as one potato rotting can spread to others. Plus it is not pleasant putting your hand in a potato sack and picking up a yucky smelly potato, we want none of that thank you.

More soon, we are harvesting Romano potatoes and they are looking good.