Knob Creek
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I need to store some root vegetables. Potatoes, carrots, cabbage in an outbuilding. Thinking of something like a mesh or wire box to allow air flow. Any ideas?
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Good advice.Large lidded Rubbermaid tub with vegetables packed in clean straw, if possible set it a foot away from the North-side wall. Air flow is not as critical as vermin deterrence.
Open the tubs once a week and use lid to fan contents with fresh air...
If you are using your stored root-veggies, airing them is not a big deal at all...
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I need to make a root cellar next year.
Ya, and a hole at the bottom so he can do the ride over and over.Is there a nice soft bed of straw in the bottom of that bucket for the mouse to land on?
I have to admit, I've never had a Ford tone, but if they're crisp and tasty I'd like to try one.He said the last carrot was just as crisp and tasty as the Ford tone he took out months before.
Damn auto correct lolYa, and a hole at the bottom so he can do the ride over and over.
I have to admit, I've never had a Ford tone, but if they're crisp and tasty I'd like to try one.
This was my Grandmothers cellar. Next to the coal chute.when I was growing up, the very old house I lived in had a canning room in the cellar where my Mom put up hundreds of Ball jars full of tomatoes, pickles and all kinds of other vegetables.
We also had a "root cellar" that was a dirt floored room under the pantry that was accessed from a door outside the house. Down four wooden stairs and there were two vegetable bins in there, basically big wood boxes with a hinged top and a handle. Dad would buy several 100lb. sacks of potatoes and big bags of onions each fall and they would go in there along with squash, carrots and other veggies we grew in the garden. I remember trudging out through the snow to get potatoes from the cellar for dinner.
I also remember my mother making "fresh" spaghetti sauce from her canned tomatoes in the middle of winter. Great memories.