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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: cayadopi AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Cool food storage
  • Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:49:51 -0700


On Dec 9, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Leslie wrote:

Gene,

For storing potatos / carrots in the soil, does the soil have to remain above freezing?

Yes. That's what the mulch does, keep the soil from freezing. When you want potatoes, you pull back mulch and lift the spuds. In good soil you can do this with no tool save your hands.

An alternative way is to dig a hole and bury a small barrel or wood box (not plastic), fill with potatoes, top with lots of organic material: mulch, straw, grass and leaf collection from fall mowing. Do not clean the potatoes. Lift them, leave them on the ground until the clinging dirt and skins have dried a bit, then store. Handle as gently as possible to avoid bruising. Some people make layers of spuds and straw.






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