Have More In Winter, Too!

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March/April 1970
 
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WINTER (January-March)

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Vegetables and fruits - rest of those stored in the root cellar - some canned and frozen vegetables, fruits. Fresh pork or chevon, smoked hams and shoulders, sausage, bacon. Frozen or fresh chicken. Other fowl (as you cull). Rabbit.

SPRING (April-June)

Vegetables and fruits - canned or frozen. Spring garden greens, such as dandelions, beet tops, asparagus. Fresh rhubarb. Jerusalem artichokes, and parsnips left in garden over winter. Radishes, lettuce. Hams and bacon (cured in winter). Baked beans. Broilers, frozen or fresh. Other meats from freezer. Milk and eggs.

While we're making lists, here's one you'll find helpful in deciding whether to store, can, freeze or dehydrate the various vegetables from your garden.

Easy Storage: potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, winter squash, turnips.

Best for Freezing: all meats and poultry, snap beans, shell beans, lima beans, asparagus, peas, corn, all greens and berries.

Best to Can: tomatoes, snap beans, shell beans, soy beans, peas, corn and some fruits depending on your own likes.

Most Successfully Dried: soy beans, lima beans, kidney beans, peas, corn, onions, some fruits.

Cold Storage or Root Cellar

It so happens that the old trick of putting away root vegetables and some fruits in a cool, moist place is both easy and cheap and for certain things the best way to store.

The necessary conditions are a cool, moist atmosphere (temperature 35° up to 45°), darkness, and protection from rats and mice.

We are unfortunate in having a very small basement. What we would have liked is a cellar storage section about 10' x 6' and at least 6' high, for standing room and plenty of shelf space. A section of the basement can be walled off with economical concrete blocks or insulating board. Good insulation and a close-fitted insulated door are most important, especially if you have a furnace in the basement. A small window is also necessary in order to control the temperature within the storage unit. An earthen floor is best - it gives your storage the proper humidity. If you have a cement floor you must sprinkle it with water every day or two, or keep a bucket of water in the room. In basement storage it is also best to pack carrots, beets, and other root vegetables (except potatoes) in a barrel or crock with damp leaves or sand.

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