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best squash storing methods?

 
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Hi folks,
We just got our squash in, several different types.....ok geez, actually there's like 90 squash this year! In past years we just stored them on the floor upstairs, near where the hot water tank and the chimney from the woodstove below are, to cure them for a bit and then they get stashed away under beds or wherever we can fit them, really.  Last year there seemed to be alot more mold where squash were left on the floor, so I'm thinking we'll try to lift them up on racks or something, but I thought I'd post here and see if anyone has any useful insights or ideas about storing lots of squash.  We are in Coastal BC/cascadia, in a off-grid wood heated home, so temps do fluctuate a fair bit.  We have a root cellar space but it's a bit too damp I think, works well so far for taters.....  Where do you store your abundance of squash?
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a recent thread on squash storage (also scroll down to the bottom of the page for more ‘threads like this’:
permies.com/t/192999/kitchen/Storing-squash
 
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We store ours on shelves in wire baskets for airflow.  They're in a moderately humid/dry basement room where it's normally 55F over the winter.  By moderately humid/dry, I mean it isn't so humid that things rust but it's reasonable.  We're still eating the last few spaghetti squash from 2021...
 
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