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> 
> May I ask where do you store them all?

Half of them (there abouts) we dig and store in bins in the basement.  About 
half we either clamp in the garden or else just leave them where they are and 
dig them all winter.   Those left in the ground are of better quality until 
about mid Feb or early Mar.  Then the ones that were dug are better, or 
perhaps 
I should say just different.  In the ground the potato determines in early 
March that it is time to prepare for earnest growth and converts much of the 
starch to sugar.  The potatoes become very waxy and sweet.   We ate perhaps 
the 
last of the feasible potatoes last week and will have the first new potatoes 
in 
about four weeks.  Sometimes the two overlap.   </HTML>