. War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables ... Fig. 6—This shows cabbage, pulled with roots,stored by being set in a shallow trench, with rootsdown. The roots are covered with earth. Thestakes, projecting 2 feet above the surface of theearth, serve as supports for boards or poles whichmake an enclosure. This frame should be bankedwith dirt (b). Across the top place poles or plankand cover with straw, hay or corn fodder (a).Make the trench as long as necessary and anywidth up to 8 feet. covering. If celery is kept in the rowwhere grown the earth should be bankedaround the plan
. War vegetable gardening and the home storage of vegetables ... Fig. 6—This shows cabbage, pulled with roots,stored by being set in a shallow trench, with rootsdown. The roots are covered with earth. Thestakes, projecting 2 feet above the surface of theearth, serve as supports for boards or poles whichmake an enclosure. This frame should be bankedwith dirt (b). Across the top place poles or plankand cover with straw, hay or corn fodder (a).Make the trench as long as necessary and anywidth up to 8 feet. covering. If celery is kept in the rowwhere grown the earth should be bankedaround the plants with the approach ofcold ? weather. For freezing weather 28 HOME STORAGE MANUAL bring the dirt to the tops of the plants andcover the ridge with coarse manure, straw. Fig. 7—This shows celery set into an outdoor pitor trench for storage. Boards should be placedalong the edges of the pit or trench and dirtbanked against these boards. The tops of thecelery should be covered with corn fodder, strawor similar covering. The celery may be removedeasily at any time. OUTDOOR Beets Potatoes Carrots Turnips Parsnips Salsify outdoor cellar makes a good storageplace. In cold climates this should be par-tially underground. A side-hill location isdesirable for ease in handling the vegeta-bles. To make such a cellar dig an excava-tion and in this erect a frame by setting .posts in rows near the dirt walls. Sawthese posts off at uniform height and placeplates on their tops. On these plates placerafters. Board up completely with the ex- or fodder, using stakes or boards to holdthe covering in place. Only late maturingand late planted celery can be safelystored. (Fig. 7). A hotbed, instructions for the makingof which are given on Page 6 (Fig. 2).in Part
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