Potato & Onions?

[Arimeh]

Hi all, this may seem like a really blonde thing to ask, but just wondering how everyone else stores their potatos/onions/sweet potato.

I usually store mine just in the pantry, in a ice cream container, and it was working fine, but today, I went to get the sweet potato out to make DS some vegies for the week and a freakin roach came out and scared the bejesus out of me.

So obviously, the roaches are hating the wet weather up here in qld and want to live in our house where it is dry

Does anyone have any suggestions? I know I have tried leaving them in the plastic bags from the supermarket (out of laziness really) and they just went all mouldy because of the humidity. So just wondering how everyone else stores their potatoes and onions, especially in queensland with our humidity being what it is?

Thanks in advance

[Kazbah]

I made a potato bin with a shelf under for onions. With my home-grown onions, when I harvest them I plait the leaves/stalks and hang them up.

Sweet potato I put in the fridge.

[meow]

I keep potatoes and onions in the cupboard in the dark... but I put sweet potato in the fridge. I thought it was different for some reason?

[Arimeh]

Hmmm.. maybe I need to be gettin myself a bin... and start putting the sweet potato in the fridge obviously!!!!
Thanks guys

[{sarah}]

Potato & onions in the cupboard & sweet potato in the fridge for us too.

Though when we were on holidays we put the onions in the fridge due to lack of space & amazingly there was no smell or watery eyes. Been meaning to test it since getting home but haven't yet.

[Arimeh]

Really Sarah? I think I've read that somewhere too.... interesting..
I wonder if I can keep the potatoes and onions in the cupboard, still in my ice cream container if I try to keep the lid on it? Cos i'm pretty slack when it comes to keeping the lid on (busy busy as you all know)
or maybe its not good for them to be in containers that are plastic??

[Kazbah]

You could also put them in (seperate) hessian bags in your pantry.