Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

"Root cellars are nature’s way of storing fruits and vegetables. And they
can be excellent storage areas for other things as well. A hundred years
ago root cellars were one of the few ways they had of keeping things cool.
People not only put potatoes and carrots in their root cellars, but their
preserved meat, milk and cream, fruits and vegetables - literally anything
they needed to keep cool. Even though root cellars didn’t get nearly as
cold as a refrigerator during summer months, root cellars generally were
and are 30 to 40 degrees F cooler than daytime summer temperatures."

complete article at http://waltonfeed.com/old/cellars.html

Root Cellar Basics complete page at
http://waltonfeed.com/old/cellar4.html
# Temperature is your most important interest
# Your second most important consideration is humidity
# Air circulation
# How big of a cellar should you build?
# Shelves
# What kind of root cellar is right for you?
# Construction methods
# Using your root cellar
# Vegetables and their optimum storage conditions


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau
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On 7/21/2006 at 2:04 PM Dianne Palmer-Quay wrote:

>Finally, does anyone know anything about root cellar type storage in the
>South?  My crawl space is about 74 degrees now (outside highs are the
upper
>90's) which is where I am storing the surplus potatoes and winter squash
>from this year's garden.  But that temperature is too warm (according to
>the books).  Any ideas how I could create a cooler space without a
>refrigeration device?