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Trashcan Cellar Update:
Good news! I only lost about 2.5lbs-3lbs of potatoes in this thing. The potatoes you see here range from 6 to 8 months out of the ground since being harvested. The ones in the orange bucket are the eating potatoes. The rest are seed potatoes for this season. The seed potatoes are the oldest ones. The potatoes have been in the cellar for a few days short of 6 full months. Most of the seed potatoes already had eyes on them when they were put into the cellar. The purple majesty potatoes started growing what looks like new potatoes from their eyes. I've never seen that in storage before. The other 3-4 varieties didn't do that.
Planting has already started. I have 376 square feet of soil space dedicated to potatoes this year. I'm spacing them on a square foot grid with 1 potato plant per square foot. (I really hate flat ground and wish everything was in raised beds already.) Some volunteer potatoes from the nursery raised bed for propagating the purple majesty have popped up today as well. I can't wait until everything is in the ground and I can go back to being lazy until harvests start.
