As we head into November, this is the time when all the careful preparation of the winter root crops for storage pays off. In January, basement crop bins provide the closest thing to a basket full of ...

We should be displaying our garden produce the way hunters display deer heads. Pulling a humongous carrot from your own ...

Our root-cellar-in-a-box overflows with potatoes. Without a cellar, what’s an approachable way to store my root crops through winter? Build a root vegetable storage box for a small-scale way to ...

Check out these five underground root cellar designs for vegetable storage that will help you preserve your harvest through winter. Many root crops, such as potatoes and carrots, can be stored for ...

I have been asked many times this year by reporters and others if more and more folks are choosing to can their own food this growing season. Jarden Home Brands say they have seen an increase of 28 ...

Dig carefully. Use a gardening fork or shovel to gently loosen the soil beneath the tubers and lift the potatoes by their ...

"Color added" read the label on the bag of oranges. My wife examined another bag in the store's produce section. Then another. "Color added" they all read. It looked like we might not be eating any ...

In the southern American states, homesteaders, preppers, traditionalists, and people who are just plain frugal eventually learn a painful lesson: Root cellars really don't work in their warmer climate ...

ANNA — Residents interested in building a root cellar to extend the life of root vegetables, fruits or seasonal produce may attend the “Root Cellar Storage and Design” field day from 9:30 a.m. to ...

QUESTION: Is there some way to build a root cellar in Central Florida? With potatoes costing 99 cents for 5 pounds, I think it would be worthwhile to stock up on these and other root crops. ANSWER: ...