I carried about 180# of spuds up from the basement, today. They can spend a few weeks in the garage - then it will be back downstairs.

About 10% had a visible change to the eyes. A few had sprouts. eep!

I'm gonna do better with the potatoes this year! They don't usually make it all the way thru winter. It is 58F in that basement room. Not a lot cooler in the garage but that temperature has been about our outdoor high (on some very nice fall afternoons). I'll have to get a thermometer in there but with only overnight frost, I think they should be fine for quite a few weeks.

The basement storage room will actually drop all the way down into the 30's during extended subzero winter days & nights. That has only happened once that I remember but the point is that the temp down there is neither perfect nor consistent. It was the best place for the potatoes thru the warm weeks of late August and September.

Yes, this problem is a price I pay for my love of early potatoes!

Later, I was out in what was, the potato patch:

Steve