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    Posted: September 15 2006 at 5:45am
It's harvest time here. 
 
I know people has stored food for year in cellars....So how did they do that for a good lenth of time?
 
How do I keep onions from sprouting in the basement...I besement is cool and dark....
 
How do I keep all the apples fresher longer in the basement.
 
butternut quash and barlett pairs same question.
 
Wish my Grandmother was still alive....Why didn't I ask her these questions...She would have loved to help me..
 
My basement doesnt get to 30 degrees but its so cold down there in the winter I have to wear a jacket to do laundry.
 
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Apples should be individually wrapped with newspaper, only the black  & white paper, and carefully placed in a box and then the box placed in a dark room. Anywhere dark and cool but not freezing.  Only store apples without bruises or soft spots, with the skin in perfect condition.  Also do not store apples near  potatoes because as they get older they let off a gas that will hurt the apples.
 
Onions can be stored in old clean nylons.  Drop one onion in  at a time and put knot in the nylons between each onion so that they are not touching.  This can be hung in the basement, garage, pantry.
 
Do not know about potatoes.  I tryed to store a few pumpkins last year, I just put them on a shelf in the basement, but they got mold on the bottom.
 
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Thank you sunshine....
 
Welcome to the forum...
 
If you have anymore tips please don't hesitate to post it...I'm listening.
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Get a ouija board, then you can ask your grandma.
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moo, I was kind enough to answer your ? on another thread, but being fresh to another member, will get you nowhere here on this forum, roxy ,, who wasted her time on you, have a good day mate
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  Hi Sunshine, do you think I can store, store bought fruit and oinions the same way with any success or does it have to be home grown?  Does anyone else have any information about this?  thanks a lot.
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Originally posted by roxy roxy wrote:

moo, I was kind enough to answer your ? on another thread, but being fresh to another member, will get you nowhere here on this forum, roxy ,, who wasted her time on you, have a good day mate
 
Thanks Roxy:  My Grandmother just died she was 96 and was everything to me so Moo's remark cut a little deep...I was hoping the remark was taken out of context...
 
I miss her so much..She was a great Lady...At 96  she was smart as a wip...With a memory like you wouldn't believe...
 
She use to say the minds all there but the body just ain't listening.
 
God bless her...
 
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Originally posted by Mississipp Mama Mississipp Mama wrote:

  Hi Sunshine, do you think I can store, store bought fruit and oinions the same way with any success or does it have to be home grown?  Does anyone else have any information about this?  thanks a lot.
 
We live near a lot of farms and Im going to buy some products to keep in my basement...
 
If there selling to the stores and its fresh what can be the difference.  A few days maybe. 
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any time Happy camper, , sorry for your loss, roxy
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HAPPYCAMPER:  I purchased 2 great little books that will answer all  your questions.  I purchased them from heirloomseeds when I ordered my garden seeds but you can also get them direct - 800-441-5700 or www.
storey.com.  They are each 30 pages. 
 
Cold Storage for Fruits and Vegetables
 
Build your own Underground Root Cellar
 
I also purchased a digital gadget from my local ace hardware.  It gives me temperature and humidity readings.  I am converting my crawl space into storage for fruits and veggies.  The humidity level is very important for different types of foods, according to these books.  Good Luck!! 
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thank you...Packrat
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Packrat/mama, do have a model number for that humidity device you described?Thanks in advance
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To All:
   My gadget is made by " BEMIS" and is called a Digital Humidity/Temperature Monitor.  It is model # 1990.  It is fairly small and was a bit pricey at just under $20 but I felt it a wise purchase in safeguarding the storage of my fresh produce.  Since my crawl space is dirt bottom,  I think we will mount this on a board and hang it from the ceiling area.  Just another project pending soon.  Tongue
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happy,
 
i am sorry for your loss. my mother is 83. she grew up in alabama. she talks  keeping taters in the barn with layers of straw and lime. the layers were piled high. they pretty much raised what they ate. they stored it.
 
our old ones are vast libraries of knowledge. we need to learn now. we will be the old ones one day.
 
happy good luck.
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seems that in the "olden" days alot of people used straw for storage ... wonder if that would make a difference by putting straw into boxes and putting your pumpkin or potatoes in there ... I know it's been said to store your carrots between layers of sand?  ...
you're right that the elders are a ton of knowledge, we need to gleen from them now to pass on what we learn from them.  Some people are embarrassed to talk with them, but given the chance ... some become quite the chatter box ... just keep a notepad & pencil handy!!
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I find alot of info on topics like this in the old books from antique stores. They are a cheep read and are in the context of the times. Its not as good as a cup of hot cider and good conversation with a vintaged friend, but it is fun to read the old books.
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when we harvested our onions, we pulled them, braided the stems together and then hung them to dry in a cool dark place. the unripe green tomatoes, we wrapped individually in newspaper and stored in a big box 2 layers deep.  check every 2 weeks for ripening.  for the taters, we put in 6 gallon buckets, first some newspaper all crumpled up to make a cushion, a loose layer of taters, a layer of paper, then more taters, etc.  then covered with a towel to help keep out the light.  just make sure the taters are fully dry and have no cuts or brown spots on them.

for squash, we just pulled them, set them out for them to dry off then laid them in the celler.  they will keep fine if they do not get damp or damaged.

alot of people use dry straw or sand , that is fine, use what you have on hand.  just keep the stuff cool and dry and out of sunlight.  keep checking on them every few days---you may get a spolied one now and then, but just pull it out before it affects the rest.


the neat thing about sotrage like this is that it gives you a break---when all the harvest is coming in, the ripe stuff can  drive you nuts having to get it all done in time.  like the tomatoes---i canned tomatoes til i was ready to spit--then a frost was coming so i had to pull all the green ones so we didnt lose them---man that was a chore...BUT... but by pulling the green tomatoes, wrapping them and storing them, it gave me a grace period til some started to ripen slowley and i had time to deal with them again.

the taters will sit in cold storage til we are ready to use them , same as the squash and onions.

its not as hard as it may seem on paper---ya just got to do it and see what happens.


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HappyCamper..my mom is 94 yrs. young and I am so grateful to discuss the survival info she shares with me.  She survived the 1918, the depression, and sleeping on the ground in the desert.  If she only had more to remember of those experiences I could survive anything. But time is so short and so is her memory.
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