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- From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
- To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:53:33 -0500
Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
Probably your concern is freezing, is it not? Realize that in the DeepSouth, where Bob is likely from, winter temps barely get below freezing,
and a cellar, insulated by dirt, would be far warmer than the >outside.
If a root cellar stays warm, I guess there's no point in having one. I wonder where you would store things like potatoes and winter squash, that like cool, slightly humid conditions?
Also in a root cellar...Southerners generally don't grow winter squash..
It is all relative...In the summer, the root cellar/basement would historically be cooler than the house.
Root cellars should never freeze...that ruins winter squash and a lot of other things. Root cellars here are cool (but above freezing) and fairly humid; more humid than I would like to store canned or dry foods. I guess that also isn't a problem where Bob is.
It is the same in the same...humid, and above freezing cool....
I would not store dried food in a root cellar unless they were in airtight jars or plastic, but canned food, definitely.
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Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore
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Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore,
bob ford, 12/09/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 12/09/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore,
bob ford, 12/09/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, Lynn Wigglesworth, 12/09/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore,
Lynda, 12/09/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, Leslie, 12/09/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, bob ford, 12/09/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, william Eggers, 12/09/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, bob ford, 12/09/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, william Eggers, 12/09/2008
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bob ford, 12/09/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 12/09/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore,
bob ford, 12/09/2008
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- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, EarthNSky, 12/09/2008
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- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, Lynda, 12/09/2008
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- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, bob ford, 12/09/2008
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Re: [Homestead] Motivation,
EarthNSky, 12/09/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Motivation, Lynda, 12/09/2008
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EarthNSky, 12/09/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Go ld -- feel free to ignore, Leslie, 12/09/2008
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