Meadowlark
Well-known member
- Location
- East Texas
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Tell me about your cellar...when you get a chance. I'd love to have one but just not feasible here.
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Harvesting Potatoes
- Thread starter Mike
- Start date
Nothing special. Just a concrete room under ground really. We're gonna build shelves along a few walls for storing veggies.
Well, learned a valuable lesson during year one of the garden. You can't hold potatoes under a lean-to for 3 days in 100+ degrees. They've already turned to mush. Our entire potato crop is ruined. 
Meadowlark
Well-known member
- Location
- East Texas
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Its a painful lessen but invaluable. The same can happen when you get a hard soaking rain on the potatoes after the tops have started falling over...two days tops and rotting potatoes. Ask me how I know this. 
Its a painful lessen but invaluable. The same can happen when you get a hard soaking rain on the potatoes after the tops have started falling over...two days tops and rotting potatoes. Ask me how I know this.
Yeah, it's definitely a bummer. Hopefully we'll be able to store our fall crop. We did get to enjoy several meals out of these, as well as a family shrimp boil, so not all was wasted.
