Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Art Corbit" <art_c@cox.net>]

Well I'll put it this way. I have never had any luck with it here in
Arkansas and I'll leave it at that.

Art

----- Original Message -----
From: "TamesonOB" <tamesonob@metrocast.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:36 AM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Root cellar


> Art,
>
> I'm not trying to be a contrary snot nose whippersnapper but I have lived
in
> old houses all my life (in NH 36 yrs) and every one of them had a root
> cellar, a pantry and a larder, all with differing climates for food
storage.
> In fact my parent's house used to belong to the local ice man and he had
an
> elaborate ice cellar which kept the ice frozen straight through 'til the
> fall - but I digress. We would keep our root crops and apples in sand in
> these big bins in the high humidy root cellars, as well as butter and  a
few
> cabbages (Dad hates Cabbage, but Mom is 1/2 Irish and really needs a
boiled
> dinner ever now and again) (incidently, blueberries do quite well in a
root
> cellar and we would have some still around christmas time if we didn't eat
> them all first). Even my current house which has tide lines on the cellar
> walls has a root cellar section in the high corner (dirt floor + high
water
> table + 320 yrs =  very sloped floor). We keep our roots (potatoes and
> carrots mostly) in giant pickle crocks that were left here by the previous
> owner becuse they are too darned heavy to lug up the stairs and even with
> water on the floor  we have no rot. I think this year I'm going to try the
> leaving the carrots in the ground method and see if that works out well.
>
> Tameson the youngish old yank
>
>
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