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dawg day

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2. How do you preserve the potatoes?

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Sat Sep 29, 2018, 05:47 PM

Sep 2018

The only way I could think of is to make huge vats of mashed potatoes (which freeze well).

What do you do? Even I couldn't eat 30 pounds of potatoes before they get grungy.

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I just dug 30 pounds of red potatoes out of one of my 2 rows of spuds [View all] jpak Sep 2018 OP

re: frozen kale rog Sep 2018 #1

Steam chopped kale until bright green jpak Sep 2018 #4

re: frozen kale, thank you rog Sep 2018 #7

How do you preserve the potatoes? dawg day Sep 2018 #2

I put them in burlap bags and store them in the cool part of the cellar jpak Sep 2018 #5

How cool in temp should they be? NutmegYankee Oct 2018 #14

45-50 degrees F - right now they are upstairs in an unheated room. jpak Oct 2018 #15

How do you freeze your cabbage and peppers? Ohiogal Sep 2018 #3

I chop the cabbage, bake it on a sheet in the oven with oilive oil jpak Sep 2018 #6

my dehydrator has paid for itself many times over. mopinko Sep 2018 #8

We freeze lots of peppers by just dicing them and packing in freezer bags. They last a long time japple Oct 2018 #13

The oak trees in MI are loaded with huge acorns elmac Sep 2018 #9

My big canner is still in storage Bayard Sep 2018 #10

I just picked the last of my baby-sized watermelons today jpak Sep 2018 #11

Still getting the big ones Bayard Sep 2018 #12