Planting potatoes in winter

Cleaning up, at the bottom of the pantry, I discovered egg cartons filled with small potatoes that, too small to eat at harvest, I tucked away, but now they're happily sprouting away.

I'd planned to try to use them as 'seed potatoes' anyway, thinking that they'd be in the dark, etc.

sprouting potatoes

Yikes, I thought, even though the weather's mild, it's way too early even in the South to put out potatoes, although there are alternative folks who start them in the fall, based on my internet searches.

But something else I found was this informative post by Barbara Pleasant, an excellent and knowledgeable garden writer and vegetable gardener. 

What she suggests is what I'll be doing tomorrow with my sprouted potatoes, as soon as I can mix up some potting mix with the coir bricks that I've still got in my garden shed. 

I'll be tucking them into double paper lunch sacks filled with potting mix and keep them inside until I plant them outside, probably in early March.