On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 10:13:31 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
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>Idahos: buy 5 lb. and go thru them in about 10 days. I store em in a big plastic bin in a dark closet. I'd store in the fridge, but not enuf room. Never have one go bad. I must say, tho that at this time of year, they aren't THE best.
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That's because harvesting hasn't started yet for this year's crop of
potatoes . Soon the country roads around here will be filled with
huge dump trucks with heaping loads of potatoes and sugar beets,
onions too. You can get good deals on potatoes direct from the farm
but then you have a lot of cleaning to do. Typically, farm fresh
potatoes carry a LOT of dirt. Onions can get really cheap as well,
but I can't use 50 or 100 pounds of onions in a timely fashion
When driving down the road behind a sugar beet truck, you want to
leave a goodly space between you and the truck. Sugar beets can be
the size of a basketball or larger and if one of them rolls off the
truck and onto your windshield, you are in trouble.
Janet US