I don't know about everything you mentioned, but I do know you can store
carrots in a plastic bucket. Put about an inch of sand in the bottom, a
layer of carrots (not touching each other), another inch of sand, another
layer of carrots, etc. Make the last layer of sand 3 to 4 inches deep and
put a lid on it. Bury it in the yard with the lid at ground level. Cover
it with mulch. I set mine in the garage, and they were good till past
April. You might try some of the others (Not sweet potatoes, they need air
circulating around them).
Dwayne
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On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 03:14:12 GMT, "Dwayne"
wrote:
Pat, I would try to store them anyway. I lay mine on a self in a cool,
dark
room.
Our house is 570 sf over all, of which one room (88 square
feet - 8 x 11) is an office.
So we have a grand total of 482 sf living space...this is
about HALF the space of an average single-wide trailer. No
extra rooms for storage here. Not even an unused small
shelf. The space under the bed is already utilized
Thanks for the good info!
Maybe you have a friend or some relation that would give you a portion of
a
storage room in their basement. (Give them the big ones and they will
love
you.)
I'm beginning to think that I should advertise in the local
paper that we want to 'rent' cellar space.
It's not just sweets, I have no place to store carrots,
apples, white potatoes, beets, etc. I can grow all these
(except the apples, and I hope to plant a couple of dwarf
apple trees next spring) but we have no place to store them.
I could share them all with the owner of the cold-cellar.
We haven't lived here very long, and the friends we have
made here either don't have a cellar, or have finished
cellars they use for various purposes themselves...but
SOMEONE in town must have a root cellar they aren't using.
We really cannot dig a root cellar either: 1. We have no
money for it and cannot physically do it ourselves and 2. We
live on the side of a hill, and there is underground water
running down the hill. Our next-door neighbors are in the
process of building an addition to their house (with a
basement) and they've had all *kinds* of trouble with water.
They're needing some very expensive special drainage,
involving tons of rocks, etc.
Pat
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