Topic: Veg storage

[cambourne7]

Hi Gang,

I am putting together some plans for building my own house. One of the ideas i want to incoporate is an old fashoned kitchen store. No radiator or windows.

I want to have this split into 2 areas seperated by a gap. Maybe 2ft wide.

Area 1 -  Sheved area for tin, canned, bottled, jar food as well as overspil for kitchen equipment good china, glasses etc 6ft by 3ft

Area 2 - Area seperated by blackout curtain to cut daylight and light to other area out. I think that what i need are some shelves ( with dowel bases to allow air ) for stoage of apples. Some pull out drawers for storae of potatoes, carrots, parsnips. And some hooks for onion ( once dried ) and garlic. 6ft by 3ft

Am i on the right lines?

Cambourne7

[saddad]

To be a proper root store as in Victorian KG you would need it to be seperate. Every time you went in it would cause the temp to fluctuate from the warm house air...
 ???

[manicscousers]

the guy in Canada, who's book I have, has a root cellar !!  ;D

[cambourne7]

would adding a door work?

[saddad]

It would be a good step in the right direction... I use our outside shed and toilet but OH has two freezers and the tumble dryer in there and the temp is too high and fluctuates... The outside loo is better but not big enough!
 ;D

[supersprout]

the guy in Canada, who's book I have, has a root cellar !!  ;D

Would that be Mike & Nancy Bubel's Root Cellaring?  ::)

[manicscousers]

no it's a guy called Edward C Smith, the book's called The Vegetable Gardener's Bible, part of it's about storage  :)