Storing parsnips and carrots
I
probably could have left them in the ground a little longer, but the
day before Thanksgiving just felt like the right time to dig the
parsnips. I ended up with a big bowlful, and the roots slipped
quite nicely between layers of damp creek sand/gravel in a large flower
pot. They have now become the first inhabitants of our fridge
root cellar!
Meanwhile, inside, I
checked on the carrots I've
been storing in the fridge. After about a week,
the top layer started to lose a bit of its crispness, so I wet a dish
towel and laid it on top. It seems like I need to re-soak the
dish towel once a week, but the carrots are now staying nice and
crisp. The only problem is that we've eaten half of them
already! I guess next year we'll have to grow twice as many.
I still have a bed of
younger parsnips and a couple of beds of young carrots in the
garden.
I planted these too late to get large roots this fall, so I'm hoping
that they'll overwinter in the ground under a heavy leaf mulch and grow
for me in the spring.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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