346 Gardening 
Use of hotbeds and cold frames for storage. These 
may be used for storage in the same manner that pens are 
used. The beds may be emptied by the time they are 
needed for growing seedlings in the following spring. 
Late crops of lettuce, celery, and endive may be grown 
directly in the soil of hotbeds and cold frames. As freez- 
ing temperatures occur, the top may be covered and the 
crop removed as desired. 
Storage in attics. Sweet potatoes and squashes may 
sometimes be stored in an attic near a chimney. Onions 
may be kept in rather cool attics, as they are not injured 
by slight freezing, although it is best not to submit them 
to alternate freezing and thawing. Dry beans and peas 
may be stored in an attic or even on the pantry shelf. 
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To provide suitable means for winter storage of home- 
grown vegetables is thus in most cases a simple matter. 
The cellar and the attic are usually to be had in the home. 
Cool rooms are easily made, and once made are perma- 
nent. Qutdoor barrel pits; banks, and pens also are 
easily.and quickly constructed and afford efficient means 
of keeping vegetables fresh. 
The produce raised on a small garden plot will per- 
haps be used directly from the garden, but a garden no 
larger than 4 by 5 rods may yield some produce for 
storage. 
During the winter months fresh vegetables such as 
beets, carrots, and cabbages are much needed in the diet, 
and it is during winter that these vegetables usually 
reach their highest market price. Potatoes, which the 
small gardener will perhaps buy in the market, may be 
