Tried storing some potatoes in the fridge at 35 and the basement at 62. Harvested in late July/early August.
The fridge potatoes are solid and unsprouted. Basement potatoes are a bit shriveled with sprouts.
I’m only planning to use the fridge potatoes for mash or roasting.
How is the taste of the fridge ones? They could be somewhat sweet after that cold.
Not sure yet. I’ve been using the other ones first.
I’m going to experiment. Some say returning them to room temperature for a few days reverses at least some of the sweetening.
I got to try something, the ideal storage conditions for potatoes don’t exist for me. Here, I’m harvesting them right at the height of summer heat, and there’s nothing even remotely close to the 45 to 50° ideal until sometime in October or November.
Same here… I keep them refrigerated but my fridge more like 40F. The seed ones I keep at separate fridge at 35.
I don’t taste any problems with the potatoes I keep in the fridge
I got an old chest freezer from Craig’s list and bought the device to control temperature. I keep it at 35 to store my seeds potatoes, I also store beets, carrots, cabbage there. If I have more space, I would by another one and keep it at 50, so i can load it with eating potatoes, but my grow /storage room already have full size upright freezer, full size fridge for my canning, and that small freezer converted to fridge. I have no space for another one.
I just checked the temp in mine, it’s about 40