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Smallholding => Techniques and skills => Topic started by: r+lchick on October 30, 2009, 09:23:44 am

Title: Clamp for potatoes.
Post by: r+lchick on October 30, 2009, 09:23:44 am

Anyone successfully kept potatoes in a clamp over winter?  Never tried it because didn't want to loose the crop.  Does it really work?  Ros

Title: Re: Clamp for potatoes.
Post by: Andy1982 on August 03, 2010, 12:28:55 pm

No I hav'nt tried the clamp yet as I have nothing to clamp (Yet!).

But if you hunted out an old 2nd hand deep chest freezer and layered the spuds with some straw and just keep a little crack open big enough for air and not vermin size.

Just an idea.

Best of Luck

Andy

Title: Re: Clamp for potatoes.
Post by: Fleecewife on August 04, 2010, 12:10:24 am

I've always felt that a clamp would just be a big larder for rats and mice, beautifully thatched

Title: Re: Clamp for potatoes.
Post by: VSS on August 05, 2010, 04:59:45 pm

its a nice idea, but in reality, paper sacks are just a good and much easier! Also with a paper sack you can see if anything goes bad as you get a soggy patch on the side of the bag. You can't see that in a clamp