"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
hillier wrote:
My potatoes were in good condition when I stored them in potato
sacks, but they have since started to turn green.
Any ideas what might be the cause please.

Exposure to light. Even the small amount that gets through sacks.

If they haven't started sprouting, try making a really dark place
for
them, and I think the green should eventually go away again. You
might try putting each sack inside a cardboard box inside another
cardboard box, with old carpet or something on top. TV and computer
shops should have a few spare big boxes.

The heavy brown paper which lines supermarket banana boxes is a good
thing to put inside your cardboard boxes before closing the lids,
and
it's free: supermarket staff have always been very good to me when I
wanted to relieve them of some of their rubbish -- papier-maché
apple
trays for fruit, or banana boxes for books when moving house -- so
don't be shy about asking.

You're making it sound as if one needs a photographic dark room for
storing potatoes. {:-)

With certain varieties it seems you might, I have had them go green even
in my fridge this year.


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Chris Thomas
West Cork
Ireland