 when you harvest your potatoes you dig a hole and you'll keep them in that hole and so you can almost like nature's root cellar or something like that so yeah so you can have potatoes all year long but in my house we put them in the attic that was one of my tasks as a little girl was to go up into the attic and get me a pound of potatoes she would have me put them out on newspaper you know you didn't want them to rot so you couldn't have them to touch and so that kind of like