This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Jill E. Fishinger CPA P.C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for advice on the storage of carrots. I picked up a 25lb bag > of carrots at the grocery store yesterday. My intention is to store them in > our root cellar. My question is do you store them in newspaper like you > would cabbage or do you store them open to the air?
>From the book "Putting Food By", p.287, Root-Cellaring Vegetables: Carrots may stay in the garden after the first frosts. After digging, handle like beets. Beets. Harvest in late fall after nights are 30F [...] but when the soil is dry. Do not wash. Leave tails and 1/2" of the crown when removing the tops. Pack in bins, boxes, or crates between layers of moist sand, peat or moss; or line containers with a large plastic bag that has 1/4-inch breathing holes cut in about 12 places. Elsewhere, it notes that moist sand "shouldn't be at all puddly-wet: if it's cold to the touch and falls apart when squeezed, leaving a few particles stuck to your hand, it should be the right degree of dampness. Don't fill containers so deeply that the produce at the bottom is ignored in the periodic examinations for spoilage." Ideal storage temperature is 32--40F, with 90--95% relative humidity and slight air circulation; storage life is 6 months. Of course, no Fjord worthy of the name would let carrots last 6 months.... ;-) Marsha Jo Hannah Murphy must have been a horseman-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything that can go wrong, will! 15 mi SW of Roseburg, Oregon The FjordHorse List archives can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/rcepw
