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Post by daylilydude on Oct 15, 2018 4:16:23 GMT -5
Do you grow and store these type of veggies and or fruits... how do you store them and for how long?
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Post by coppice on Oct 15, 2018 6:02:59 GMT -5
No space for that, so I only buy enough for prompt consumption.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 15, 2018 8:15:14 GMT -5
Only thing that I grow for storage is butternuts. Those go in baskets in the basement, and I watch closely, for any bad spots, and use that one right away.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 15, 2018 8:22:44 GMT -5
I have an unfinished basement with a concrete floor that stays at about 55° all winter. I store onions, garlic, winter squash and potatoes down there in wood baskets which are kept from touching the floor by sitting them on plastic lids from 5 gallon buckets. This is a pic from a previous year. I did not grow so many onions this year. Potatoes are in the baskets on the right and I place a big piece of cardboard in front to them to protect them from light. DSC00919 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by bestofour on Oct 15, 2018 9:04:36 GMT -5
It's just too hot here to do this. My daughters in laws try to keep stuff under their house but they say they have to lay everything out flat, not touching, and turn them often.
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Post by september on Oct 15, 2018 9:04:39 GMT -5
I store onions in my garage until there's a chance of it freezing in there, then they get moved to a spare north side bedroom that tends to stay between 55-60 all winter.
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Post by deneka on Oct 18, 2018 21:26:44 GMT -5
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Post by farmerjack41 on Oct 18, 2018 23:38:19 GMT -5
Have an insulated area inside the shop to store potatoes . Never drops below freezing in the shop till temperature get to about zero. Onions are stored is a refrigerator out in the garage. Carrots are left in the ground, and well covered with groundup leaves. Mark where they are so can locate if the snow gets to deep.
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Post by spacecase0 on Oct 19, 2018 1:40:10 GMT -5
I just leave potatoes and onions in a cardboard box on my kitchen floor I don't heat my place, so, nothing goes bad till late spring, and by then, I have usually used it all up. winter squash just gets put everywhere in my living room and kitchen
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Post by bestofour on Oct 19, 2018 8:28:02 GMT -5
deneka, are those hanging inside or outside? spacecase0, you never use any heat?
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Post by spacecase0 on Oct 19, 2018 21:27:41 GMT -5
deneka, are those hanging inside or outside? spacecase0, you never use any heat? I can't afford heat electricity here is about 40 cents a KWH don't have a much money, the power bill to heat my place is more money than I make total. I can use gas to heat, it costs less, but it is still out of my price range last winter the coldest day was 34F in my kitchen. so, this year I have built a greenhouse on the sunny side of my building, so I can use a fan to get that heat inside inside the greenhouse it gets about 70F higher than outside air temp. on my 80F days it works quite well, I can get it up to 80F inside, and drops to 60F by sunrise. works ok if it will only be 75F, not sure how well it will work when it gets cold. have got carbon dust to cover the floor of the greenhouse to make it work better, will put it in there tomorrow if it works like I hope, I will get free heat all winter.
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Post by deneka on Oct 20, 2018 13:23:58 GMT -5
After harvest, the onion and garlic are dried in the full sun. You may dry them before and after bind or vice versa
Then, it is best for onions and garlic to be stored (hanging) in cellars where there is a relatively constant temperature of 5-8°C (41-46.4°F). This way they last until new green harvest (onion especially). They also behave well in cooler or warmer spaces, but they do not last so long.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 20, 2018 14:05:31 GMT -5
After harvest, the onion and garlic are dried in the full sun. I have always heard that garlic should be dried out of the sun because it can change the flavor. I dry both of my garlic and onions outdoors for 3-4 weeks but they are on screens and under a roof and out of the sun.
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Post by paquebot on Oct 20, 2018 18:36:20 GMT -5
For storage as is, it's carrots, garlic, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and squash. Carrots go into a 30-gallon Rubbermaid container that is set in the ground and packed with sawdust. Garlic and onions go into unheated entry room. The rest go into the basement as far away from the furnace as possible. They are all either in milk crates or shopping baskets to allow thorough air flow.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by bestofour on Oct 20, 2018 20:58:38 GMT -5
deneka, thank you for the info and links.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Oct 29, 2018 17:05:16 GMT -5
There are no basements here (high water table) and it's too warm for non-refrigerated storage of most things in a basement or root cellar anyway.
If I get carrots in the ground early enough in the fall to mature by winter, I can just leave them in the garden all winter and pull as needed - the ground never freezes. Spring-harvested carrots are stored in the refrigerator as space permits, or processed and frozen. There is no such thing as a summer or fall carrot, since it is too hot for carrots here in the summer. They die back by early June. If I try to leave the roots in he ground, they either rot in our rainy summers, or the nematodes get them.
Garlic is stored hanging in mesh bags in a dark, air-conditioned closet. It actually keeps pretty well.
I've never had much luck with long storage of potatoes or onions, though I do better with onions than potatoes. But I've never grown potatoes and I haven't grown onions in years; I buy them as needed.
However, green onions/scallions are evergreen here, so I can harvest them whenever. They do look pretty rough in the hottest months, though.
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