There’s a lot of information on growing your own and on cooking it but not a great deal on how to harvest some crops and storing them once harvested.
With some crops, especially potatoes, how they’re harvested can make a big difference to the keeping qualities so it’s worth considering at least.
We’re fortunate to have freezers cheaply available but the old traditional methods can be adapted to our modern lifestyle and are far more appropriate for some crops.
How & Where to Store your Produce
If you grow your own, then you are going to need to seriously address where you store your harvest bounty. The kitchen cupboard may cope with a bag of potatoes but it isn’t the right place to keep half a dozen sacks of potatoes.
Although a...
Harvesting & Storing Onions, Garlic & Shallots
To keep your onion crop for months isn't very difficult but does require attention to detail. There's nothing worse than seeing your lovely crop going soft and disappearing under cottony white mould.
Harvesting Onions - How to Harvest Onions
Once...
Storing root crops, cabbages & cauliflowers, marrows & squash
This article covers storing root crops other than potatoes, ball head cabbages and cauliflower and marrows, pumpkins and squashes.
Storing Root Crops
You can store root crops, including carrots, parsnips, scorzonera and beetroot in the following...
Harvesting Potatoes Guide
Potatoes are such an important staple food that I feel the techniques and finer points of harvesting them deserves addressing. It's also a subject on which I'm frequently questioned so I take it people want to know.
Harvesting Potatoes
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Storing Potatoes Guide
Having harvested your next job is to sort your potatoes out. The best potatoes for storing are perfect, no holes or wounds from the fork when harvesting. The pile that have small holes where a slug or insect has got in or damaged will not store as well...
