I have not had much luck growing potatoes in a container but that looks like a decent harvest from a single plant! As to what to do with them now........eat 'em!! IME, fingerlings do not store well like russets.

We are trying to watch our carbs, so I normally would rather eat sweet potatoes when I do have them, to make the nutrition worth the carbs, but white potatoes seem easier to grow here than sweets. And a couple of containers of whites are not all that many to eat. I think I will try to make a potato salad with them for the added benefit of resistant starch.

But do I leave them in the sun to dry? Or just rinse the dirt off them and use them?

Just rinse off the dirt. They are ready to eat now.

I like fingerlings best roasted with garlic and rosemary :-) Any leftovers get sliced and fried up for breakfast.

Rinse them and use them. No need to dry them if you're intending to use them right away.

Yay! Thanks so much for the help - and I may try roasting them with rosemary and garlic. That will be a nice change of pace this weekend. :-)

Save a few for seed potatoes next year. Save smaller potatoes and don't wash those you're saving. I let those I'm saving dry and then rub off the dirt with my hands.

Thanks John, where do you store them for planting the next year?

We had these potatoes for dinner. They were delicious! I especially like the french fingerlings and we tried them roasted with garlic and rosemary with a little parsley and really enjoyed them that way. I could have these and not miss french fries at all. [g]

I think I'm going to have to plant more potatoes next year.

I have an unheated garage that's in the basement. Not the best location, but it's the best I have. I've used it to store fruit tree scions and rootstocks that I grafted later in the winter. So, it does work.

Oh, too bad, I don't have that kind of space in my house. I wish I did. My basement is too warm and my garage is a single unattached that is too cold. Oh well... I don't suppose they last in the refrigerator?

prairiemoon, I store some small potatoes to plant the following year in my refrigerator. They are set out in a dark part of my house for a few weeks first to lose some of their fresh dug moisture. They go into a paper bag and then into a plastic zippered freezer bag...not in the freezer, just into the heavier weight plastic for refrigerator storage. They kept well until I was ready to plant. My thinking is that any extra moisture will absorb into the paper and will help keep rot from starting. I don't know if that is true or if the paper is necessary....but that is what I did with good results so I'm not trying another way.

Wow...that is great experience to share. I appreciate it. You saved me from having to experiment. I wouldn't have thought of using the paper bag. So, do you use freezer weight plastic storage bags? And I assume you just stuck them into a back corner of the fridge or in the produce bin? I have two produce bins that I can set for humid or dry.

Do you take them out and check them periodically to see if they are rotting?

Well, thank you so much. I am really looking forward to growing more potatoes next year and I love the idea of having my own seed potato. Well worth the try and if it worked for you, than it feels like there's a good chance it will work for me. Thanks! :-)

In the past I have just put my seed potatoes in a paper bag and into the crisper drawer of my beer fridge. I do it within a month or so of harvest after curing. They've always been fine when planting out in March the next year. I select 1-2 oz. tubers that don't have any flaws,

Now I just buy seed tubers from my favorite gardening shop every year. They always have 10-12 varieties including at least a couple fingerlings.