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Gardening

HopeHoops

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5. Oh, those are always good yield crops. They don't keep that long, but they're good.

Reply to amerikat (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 12, 2012, 08:06 PM

Oct 2012

We've had the purple ones last into MARCH! My wife takes the crates that clementines come in to store the taters. They stack, provide air, and are basically dark. And if they get a moldy one, you can just throw it in the fire pit and use another one in its place. We eat a lot of clementines.

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Frost tomorrow night. Harvested the last of the potatoes. (pic) [View all] amerikat Oct 2012 OP

very nice NEOhiodemocrat Oct 2012 #1

I just save some of the harvest in paper bags. (pics) Store them amerikat Oct 2012 #3

We couldn't get purple this year. We put in some large white ones and they did very well. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #2

A local garden supply has about a dozen varieties. amerikat Oct 2012 #4

Oh, those are always good yield crops. They don't keep that long, but they're good. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #5

Of the four types I ate yesterday, Purple had the best flavor.(nt) amerikat Oct 2012 #6