Posted by Donald Lehman on August 01, 2014 at 16:27:11 from (50.122.171.152):
In Reply to: Keeping potatoes posted by Notjustair on August 01, 2014 at 15:05:45:
You must be in a warm climate. I store mine in the coolest corner of my celler and they will keep until April or May of the next year before they start to sprout and go soft. How many bushels are you talking about? At the coldest times of the winter I have to let some warm air into the bin the keep them from freezing. Sounds to me like you need a good root celler or to find an old single axle truck with a working reefer. If you don't have any other way to store them, as soon as they show any signs of sprouting, can them in quart jars. We start canning our potatoes about late March or early April. We generally can about 100 quarts. That will get us through the summer to the new crop.
Cut the potatos into small chunks, add a teaspoon of canning salt (NOT table salt) per quart jar, 1/2 teaspoon for a pint jar, fill with hot water and place in a pressure canner for the prescribed time.
Disclaimer: All of the "experts" tell you you can't can non-acid veggeis and meats in a water bath canner. I'd have liked to see you try to tell that to my mother and/or both of my grandmothers! Not only would your ears burn from the chewing out you'd have got, but more'n likely you'd be nursing a big cast iron skillet goose egg on the side of your head and been ordered out of their kitchens. Or carried out. (chuckle)
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