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Mike Haasl wrote:Another way is to leave them in the ground, mulched heavily with hay/straw.
Douglas Alpenstock wrote:
Mike Haasl wrote:Another way is to leave them in the ground, mulched heavily with hay/straw.
I've hear of that. I believe it would work well in areas with milder winters than ours.
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Bethany Brown wrote:What’s your climate like? You may be able to leave them in the ground.
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Rebecca Norman wrote:Where I live in the Indian Himalayas, with pretty cold winters (6 weeks of pond hockey), the traditional root storage method was to dig a hole in the garden every year, deep enough so the sacks of roots could be kept below the frost line, which at my location is about 3 feet. So you lower in sacks of potatoes, carrots, radishes or rutabagas, and cover them back over with soil. .
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Rebecca Norman wrote:...root storage method was to dig a hole in the garden every year, deep enough so the sacks of roots could be kept below the frost line...
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