Might have to try that should it happen again. This time I just pushed them back in —— with limited success I might add. Also looks like some of them were blown around and reseeded in places I didn’t want.
How do you store yours? We’ve been storing in our garage on screened tables. Even though the garage has heat and air we don’t run it all the time to keep the place at a given temperature. During winter the garage rarely goes below 40F and by spring the potatoes are disappearing, however we do notice some spoilage and new new growth showing up by then. Not sure we’re storing properly.
Don't know if I store "properly" either. After curing, I keep them in baskets on shelves in my mud room. The shelves are by the door with the cat door so its the coolest place I have. I select the ones I want to use for making slips and store those in my crisper drawer of the fridge along with my seeds. We all have to work with what we have, and thank goodness there's probably a thousand ways to do any one thing even if its not optimal. Sounds like what you're doing is working for you if you're only getting A little spoilage by spring, but maybe yours are getting just A little too cold?
Crisper door for the ones you want to use for slips? Sounds like something I’d like to take a stab at.
It’s a small hatchery in business for about 100 years. Their website is about as low tech as you can get, without even pictures. And, in fact, 1-2 years ago they changed their web address, but it’s really hard to find their site now, even for someone like me that has been on the new site before.
Isn't mt. Healthy the Amish run hatchery? Our stockdales uses them, and I've got some incredible chicks from them. Even my sex links have lived 10 years. Can't say if it was diet and care or their genetics, maybe a bit of both, but dang they've been some great chickens.
