It's considered best practice to store
roots and fruits in separate rooms*.
Properly ventilating a multi-room
root cellar raises a few questions:
1) Does each room need a a dedicated air inlet pipe (i.e. one that leads
directly outside), or is it sufficient to have a cold air inlet to the first room, and then another pipe near ground level connecting the first room to other rooms?
2) I assume each room needs an outlet vent, but is it possible for the pipes leaving each room to rise up a bit and then join together, thus sharing a common flue up to ground level? Since the purpose of using separate rooms is to keep the gases separate, I don't want the exhaust gases from one room just pouring into the other room via the joined pipe. But perhaps that would never happen so long as the pipes join
above where they leave each room (because hot air rises)? I can install more than one flue to ground level if necessary, but a single pipe visible at ground level is obviously neater.
* (Of
course these are more like 'cupboards' than
rooms, but the point is that they are separated by walls so we need to keep the air flowing somehow.)
