{"id":811966,"date":"2026-07-19T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811966\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:37:21","slug":"potatoes-stay-fresh-for-up-to-one-year-with-simple-storage-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/811966\/","title":{"rendered":"Potatoes stay fresh for up to one year with simple storage trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A plastic bag is the worst place to store your spuds, Marandia says (Image: karimitsu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Potatoes are among the most versatile vegetables available. Whether you’re planning a Sunday roast, a potato salad or a classic sausage and chips, it’s always handy to have a few spuds in reserve.<\/p>\n

Yet far too often, when we head to the larder to grab a few potatoes, we discover they’ve turned green and started to sprout or, worse still, become soggy and mouldy.<\/p>\n

YouTuber Marandia Wright has shared a surprisingly straightforward, traditional storage technique that could spare you from repeatedly throwing away bags of rotten spuds. She explains: “Those of you who have grown potatoes know that, when you dig your potatoes up out of the dirt, you can put them in a cardboard box and just put them in a dark room.<\/p>\n

“You can go and get them whenever you want them and they’re good all the way through until the next growing season,” she says on her Survival HT channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Marandia points out that shop-bought potatoes will seldom keep for more than a fortnight: “One of the major reasons is the plastic bag,” she says. “This thing sweats, it gets them wet, it starts them rotting and rot starts spreading.”<\/p>\n

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Storing potatoes loose in a cardboard box is a far better solution (Image: DigiPub via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The solution she recommends requires neither costly equipment nor specialist knowledge \u2014 in fact, she insists, “a toddler can do it.”<\/p>\n

“This works with any kind of potato,” Marandia says. “Even sweet potatoes, and all you need is a box and some dirt.”<\/p>\n

She explains that the first and most crucial step is to remove your potatoes from the plastic bag as soon as you get home, as the humid conditions inside encourage decay. “Another major reason,” Marandia says, “is because they have washed them.<\/p>\n

“When you harvest [potatoes] yourself you do not wash them. You leave them in the original dirt, the original microbes, the things that they grew with are going to help to protect and to preserve them.”<\/p>\n

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Burying your spuds in well-dried dirt could make them last up to a year (Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

Marandia explains that you can restore shop-bought potatoes to a more natural state simply by removing them from the packaging and leaving them in a sheltered spot to dry. “Make sure there’s no moisture on the skins,” she says, “and then all you have to do is get a cardboard box.”<\/p>\n

The next step, she adds, is to gather some soil from your garden and leave it in direct sunlight for a day to ensure it’s completely dry. You don’t need a large amount of earth, Marandia says, just enough to lightly coat each potato.<\/p>\n

Lastly, Marandia explains that you should leave some space between each potato: “You can do this with newspaper by layering them: a potato layer and then a newspaper layer, then another newspaper layer.”<\/p>\n

If you don’t have enough newspaper, she says, you can instead use more soil, simply creating a layer of earth between each potato.<\/p>\n

Using this straightforward traditional technique, you can make a bag of shop-bought potatoes last up to a year, provided you can resist the temptation to eat them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plastic bag is the worst place to store your spuds, Marandia says (Image: karimitsu via Getty Images)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,284957,284961,284962,284959,74789,284960,284958],"class_list":["post-811966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-food-storage-hacks","tag-long-term-preservation","tag-marandia-wright","tag-potato-storage","tag-supermarkets","tag-traditional-technique","tag-youtuber-marandia-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}