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Old 04-10-2006, 04:03 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
David in Normandy David in Normandy is offline
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Default Potatoes sprouting in storage

Some of the potatoes I dug up a couple of months ago are starting to sprout.
Any suggestions how to prevent this? They are being stored in cardboard
boxes covered in newspaper, in a cool, dry and fairly dark store, though
there is a small window into the store which lets a little light in - is
this the problem? Do they need to be stored in total pitch dark?

The potatoes were lifted earlier than I'd planned too. Due to the dry Summer
the tops died off prematurely and many of the potatoes were small in size -
could this also account for problems storing them?
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