Here are the carrots and beets in a wheelbarrow, after picking:
Here's the garden from the shop roof. The arugula and broccoli haven't yet suffered from the cold. They are fairly hardy:
The carrots and beets (buried) in a tub, after their foliage was removed:
I sorted the carrots by size and type, and packed them in damp sand. They're stored along the windward wall of the shop, and keep well this way until May:
Some twisted carrots I set aside:
Here's the garden from the shop roof. The arugula and broccoli haven't yet suffered from the cold. They are fairly hardy:
The carrots and beets (buried) in a tub, after their foliage was removed:
I sorted the carrots by size and type, and packed them in damp sand. They're stored along the windward wall of the shop, and keep well this way until May:
Some twisted carrots I set aside:
3 comments:
Phil you said you packed your carrots in damp sand and they will store that way until May. Do you have to keep the sand damp or is that just how you pack them originally?
I had no idea you could keep carrots this way. I appreciate the intel. :)
EOU,
The sand remains slightly damp. The water in the carrots balances the water in the sand. With a lid on the tub, it all remains about as damp through the winter as it was when you you started the storage. The carrots retain their fresh taste all winter long.
This only works well if the average temperature in the tub remains in the high 30s or low 40s F.
Awesome. Thanks!
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