At the end of the year I harvested my potato crop, and I want to store them into the winter. What better place than a wine cellar?

Potatoes Stored in Wine Crate

Since this was my first year growing potatoes, I didn’t have a huge crop for storage, so I took the easy approach and took an old wine crate, and filled it with large potatoes. Next year when I have more potatoes I’ll get bigger containers, and store the potatoes in a crate filled with sand, or saw dust, or some other medium to retain moisture while keeping the potatoes separated.

I found that potatoes stored this way will easily keep for three months or more (after three months we had consumed them, so I don’t know how much longer they would have lasted). The same approach worked for carrots and kohlrabi as well.

So, when planning your wine cellar, be sure to select some wine cellar racks that will allow you to store vegetables for the winter. But here’s a tip: don’t store apples and potatoes in the same room; the apples give off a gas that makes potatoes germinate, so unless you want them to germinate, store them in separate rooms.