Fruit and vegetable storage - where do you keep potatoes,onions,bananas

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We purchase and eat a fair amount of fruit and veg each week, however quite a bit of it goes off, bananas turn brown, onions go mouldy, potatoes sprout quickly, so I need to review my storage and would appreciate any advice, my current system is:

Fruit - one medium-sized fruit bowl kept on dining table for apples, pears, bananas, grapes, oranges, these all get balanced on top of one another and get bruised, plums turn soft and soggy, so I probably need a larger fruit bowl or another separate one

Potatoes and onions - kept in a box in the utility room with a newspaper placed over the top to keep them dark but they don't last long what am I doing wrong

Sprouts, parnsips,cauli, broc is kept in the fridge along with peppers, cucumber and other salad items, these do keep quite well

Should I buy a potato bag? Or maybe a large fruit & veg rack to sit on the work top? Does anyone recommend anything? Thanks

we have a rack on wheels and it holds potatoes, onions, apples, bananas, tomatoes (on different levels). Grapes, strawberries, carrots, salad veg, etc is in the fridge.

this is the one I have

You shouldn't store bananas with other fruit and something in the banana makes other fruit go off quickly get a banana hook to go next to the fruit bowl.

bananas help to ripen other fruits so I dont put bananas on top of anything else

Fruit bowl should be wide and shallow I think to avoid piling up. I keep potatoes in a cotton shopping bag in the kitchen and they keep really well, is your utility room damp as that might be this issue?

We have a hook under the wall presses for the bananas so they're not too close to the fruit bowl.

Other than that, we're just careful to only buy what we're likely to use in a week, and use it in the order it's likely to go off in.

Potatoes go in a cupboard (apart from new potatoes, which I keep in the fridge until a few hours before needed)

Bananas in the fruit bowl.

All other fruit and veg in fridge, brought to room temp before use, if necessary. I'll put a few apples, oranges etc in the bowl, at a time, but not the whole lot.

Everything apart from bananas go in the fridge. Veg lasts for weeks. I bring pears out a few at a time to ripen for DD's lunchboxes, ditto satsumas/tangerines. I try and buy bananas when they are more green than yellow to last the week (DD2 takes one to nursery each day).

Potatoes in one of those lined potato bags, they keep a fair while. Onions in the fridge even though I know they don't need it. Its just the space where the onions live. Bananas are in their own little bowl on the side as they affect the other fruit. TBH they get eaten pretty quickly anyway.

You are supposed to keep potatoes and onions separate, as the onions cause the potatoes to sprout, apparently. No idea if it's true, but I did read it somewhere recently. I keep mine in a pull out cupboard/drawer thingy in the kitchen.

Tomatoes and occasional pears in top drawer of pull out cupboard. I never put tomatoes in the fridge as they go floury.

Only bananas and satsumas ever go in our fruit bowl - all other fruit and veg in the fridge, in separate fruit and veg drawers. Especially apples. They keep forever in the fridge. And they taste so much better when they are cold and crisp.

The fridge is the answer - things really do keep better in there!
A well known home ware store (Ld) has developed a banana bag that means you can keep bananas in the fridge for a couple of weeks - and it really works, as long as you dry the bananas before putting them in the bag.

Potatoes and onions in veg box in the fridge.Out of any wrapping.
Oranges and apples in one fruit bowl.
Bananas on banana stand or beside bowl.
Other fruit in second fruit bowl.

Hmmm interesting, lots of different ideas thanks. Rather stupidly I hadn't thought of keeping apples in the fridge and only putting a few out in the bowl, I'm going to start that straight away. I have also seen a 'potato bag' in the well known home ware store Ld.
I might try to get some sort of stackable trays/baskets for the utility room so that I can put potatoes in a bag, onions in separate tray etc
www.wilko.com/plastic-storage/wilko-stacking-baskets-silver-3pk/invt/0222518