Home Storage of Vegetables 345 
Storage in pens. Cabbage, celery, pe-tsai, endive, 
cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts may be stored in pens. 
The plants are pulled or dug, leaving some earth on the 
roots, and reset rather closely in a bed about 3 feet wide. 
A frame of poles or boards is made about the bed, and 
boards or poles are laid across the top, completing the 
pen. Earth is banked about the sides, and the top: is 
covered with straw, leaves, or dirt as the severity of 
the winter may require. Supplies may be taken from one 
end as needed. 
Fics. 187 and 188. Storing vegetables in the ground. The cabbages are set 
head down in a trench and the earth filled in about them. Boxes of root vege- 
tables are placed ina pit. Straw is laid over the top of them, and the earth will 
then be mounded up over the straw. Vegetables should be stored below the 
level of the ground only where the soil is loose and well drained. 
