KEEPING VEGETABLES 



below zero the pitting of vegetables should not 

 be attempted. Such crops as turnips, pars- 

 nips, beets, carrots, cabbage and potatoes may 

 be kept until late spring if stored on a well 

 drained strip of soil. Where the soil is more 



Poof to Ventilator 



FIG. 64. Diagram of a vegetable pit. It should run 

 east and west and the mouth of the ventilator should 

 slant north. Have eight inches of straw at the 

 base of the pit. As the weather grows colder add 

 more earth, as indicated, to keep out the frost. 



or less level, dig two trenches eight inches deep 

 on each side of the mound base, which should 

 be about six feet wide and the required length, 

 so that the vegetables may be piled four feet 

 deep. Place on the surface of the ridge about 

 six inches of clean straw. 



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