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Google is making me dangerous........

This cellar I have has a humidity that hangs between 85 and 95% and temps from 33 winter to 50 in summer. Google says you need high humidity to keep veggies from shriveling and cool temps. Over the years I have put potatoes, carrots, and onions in there only to have them ruined (mushy, moldy, and rotten) within a week or two. They were on a pallet to keep them off the damp floor and I even hung nets of stuff from hooks in the ceiling.

What gives? I'd like to store some apples and feed beets along with some other stuff.

Dave
 
Dave,
You have opened a big can of worms! Storing produce is a bit of art as well as the science behind it. I suggest you contact your cooperative extension, they may have guidlines for your specific needs, Cornell has a list that is very good. Below are some guidlines, remember each crop may have different storage requirements. Some varrities are not suited to storing (fresh market only). Some crops are harvested differently when being stored.

First start with a clean room, I wash my room with bleach water, 10% is fine. Next use clean containers. Most importantly only store the best produce, rot spreads rot, disease etc. Some crops require air circulation, others should be packed in sawdust, straw, or buckets with lids. All depends on length desired to store. Most importantly, remember you are storing a pershable commodity!
 

Well, I guess we don't store veggies in it then. I'll just clean it out, get the humidity down and store canned food, drinks and beer in it. Make a neat little man cave when it's a hundred degrees outside :roll:
 
We've had the same experience with our cellar.

Now we keep our canned produce in that cellar, but have built shelves in another cellar under the house to store white potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squash, etc.

Stuff will keep for a full year in the cellar under the house. The humidity is a lot lower there.

Wife wanted a dehumidifier for the other cellar, but we thought the operating costs would defeat the savings of storing our own produce.

Nothing like home grown food!

Paul
 
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