Hey all! Happy to be back and sharing this skill with you - I didn't know how to do it until someone showed me! I hope it helps you grow HUGE CARROTS ;)
Fantastic.I've grown some ugly, hard to clean, twisted carrots. Occasionally some decent looking ones but never straight, beautiful big ones like yours. Pelleted seed sounds great. I haven't heard of using potting soil. Is this better than damp sand?
My mom would store carrots in Eastern Europe on a balcony in a box full of sand. I believe that she let them be there during the winter or far enough into the winter.
Great info. Tip for whoever...if you don't use pelleted seed, put your seed in an old pepper shaker and use that to spread seed in your garden. Although carrots are pretty tough, when you are storing fruit or veg long term, it is important not to bruise them. A bruise can become a spot of rot which can ruin the entire bin of food. So while throwing carrots in a wheelbarrow is not a huge deal, do not do this with potatoes or apples, etc! We use sand for our storage. It is easy to sift and store for reuse the next year. Being as sustainable as possible is important to us, plus saves money. And don't forget, carrot tops are edible!
I rooted radish tops in winter and bolted in spring still getting more seed all summer and grew one and ate it from my seed. Now have more going all from the store bought radish and rooted the tops! Lots of veggies regrow
Aside from the great info, she’s got the nicest narration voice I’ve ever heard. And yep, my carrots were absolutely pitiful last year. On my way to buy a broadfork and pelleted seeds!!
You will love the pelleted seeds. I use them and do not need to thin them. I just put them about 2 inches apart and when they get big enough i thin them and eat them.
another way to plant tiny carrot seed is roll out a long length of paper towel and set the seed in rows on the towel in the proper spacing then lightly moisten the towel with a spray bottle and let dry over night, the seeds will stick to the towel, then cut into strips of seeds and plant in the garden. gives you even spacing and all the seeds are planted at the proper depth.
I saw a video with a British gentleman, he used a cut piece of a plastic dollar store basket, the mesh type and used each square (or every few squares depending on size) this was for growing in buckets. It spaced them out evenly.
This works well and I have used the method many times...what I find is even more impactful is to recycle paper egg cartons and then they are already nicely spaced, plus you leave in the eggshells, and the seeds benefit from the calcium ions!
is one more piece of advice welcomed? it makes me crazy when people throw vegetables into a barrow, bucket or onto any hard surface! be gentle with them to make them last, bruises and cuts lead to premature rot after all your hard work and patience... 260 pounds is an excellent yield. i’m taking up chantenay and nantes any day now - not 260 lbs though. well done
You made a cold room! My husband built a cold room for our neighbor. He uses it to hang game. We also have a friend who has a cold room for her flowers. She grows several types of flowers and uses the room not only for game, but for flower arrangements she donates to convalescent hospitals. We'll be making ours hopefully next spring. Nice!
Don't count out your lawn or what you can grow in pots on a patio. If you have a lawn you can turn it into a garden. I use raised garden beds but I've watched videos where people turn their whole yard into a food Forest.
I tasted a carrot from my garden and i had to just stop for a minute and appreciate the floral notes and intense sweetness i tasted... its truly incredible.
Intriguing, I've never seen carrots stored that way in a root cellar. I hope you're going to do one on how you store your potatoes in the cellar also. Thanks so much for sharing your garden with us, Jimmy
I watched this and did the same thing she said to do, just like the video and I JUST found 30# of Rotten Carrot MUSH!! Over HALF my First Year carrot harvest gone to chit because i was duped by the cute video and music!! DO NOT WET AND STORE CARROTS IN SOIL IN YOUR CELLER OR COOL CLOSETS!! I just learned the hard way.
If you have an actual winter, like here in Canada, you can leave the carrots in the ground and harvest in the spring. They must be harvested as soon as the soil thaws though. This way, we only harvest what we'll need throughout the winter and have freshly picked carrots come Springtime. 😁
Good on you for sharing this idea. I also live in Canada (Okanagan). We have been leaving our root veggies in ground through winter as well. Cover with thick layer of mulch before first freeze. Mark rows with stake at either end. Uncover snow and dig what you need and move stake to last removal spot for next dig. We can get 2-3feet of snow but still know where veggie rows are. Parsnip,beets, potatoes all good.
Tried that with carrots (also live in Canada), and they turned to mush by spring lol, but I didn't mulch. My parsley did great throughout the winter though.
When I was a child in the summer I went to our country side house. Mu grandparents were growing everything that you could possibly need (for 4 households, theirs, my aunt's, ours and for the summer house of course). So I saw how much work it was. I don't think I really appreciated it much because it was always there and I hated to have to go to the garden and help. Then Grandpa died and suddenly there were no more home grown veggies and fruits and I started missing thus times. Now all grown up and I started dreaming of an own garden about 5 years ago. Suddenly I want to plant tomatoes and potatoes and carrots and all that there is. I remember some of the methods but not all of them. So now that grandma died as well (she was 92), I started watching videos about food preservation and gardening. What I want to say is thank you for sharing your knowledge! My grandparents used to put carrots in sand for the winter but this seems to work just fine. 😊
m 74 city farming might be an option or container gardens or hydroponic gardens or community gardens ... there are many many examples around the world. thepreppingguide.com/city-farming/
OMG Shaye, you’ve given me hope for a carrot crop. I’m ORANGE with envy over yours! Btw, what a huge accomplishment: 260 lbs!🥕Congratulations! I love the way you tell your stories. Thank you for sharing the beauty of your lives with us❣️
Know what I love about your channel, you don't mind sharing the weeds with us. I come from a long line of gardeners and there are always "fruit" among the weeds....sounds like a new ladie's Bible study for me...thanks for the lovely videos.
You should watch Hollis and Nancy's Homestead video on planting carrots... He made a template for planting them which keeps you from having to thin them. Love your channel!
We had a fabulous carrot harvest this year. We have enough in the root cellar to do is until next summer. Makes me so happy. We store them in peat moss in large wooden boxes in the root cellar. We are no till gardeners. Our carrots this year are enormous.
just planted hardneck garlic . spanish roja, ajo rojo and red grain 20 cloves each 19 in memphis tn glad to find your channel it was my first year growing carrots i hope next year i will have a harvest like yours
Damp sand works just as well, and brushes or shakes off more easily. Research ‘building a clamp’ the old fashioned way of covering and storing roots and spuds all winter.
Last year my grandsons pulled the carrots and some were left behind. Late winter I was prepping beds and pulled them. They were the best, sweet and crunchy! This year I’m going to leave a section in the ground, cover them with something insulating like straw and see what happens come spring. I’m jealous of your walk in cooler. We have a basement so the plans are forming in my head. Blessings to all.
My new favorite channel. All my life all I ever wanted was to have a beautiful wife with a couple of babies running around and to spend hours in the garden and cooking from it drinking wine. Looks fun and like lots of amazing memories are being made!! Well done
Everything about this was fascinating. I live in the Deep South (near the gulf coast) so the idea of a cellar, cold storage, Even rinsing your carrots in that wicker basket- the recurring thought for me was “down here we’d have mold and mildew” 😌.... what a beautiful system you have. I actually researched broad forking and priced some locally on your recommendation .
@Shannon Hazlet I'm in NW Fla, quite near the Gulf so I have the same problem I noticed her cold cellar was lined with bubble foil & taped with the good silver tape & a small air conditioner was through the wall by the door . . . . . Maybe we could do that in a shady spot with a shed? Foundation or floor covered with steel mesh? Perhaps a really good dehumidifier could work? Anybody?
@@mspat8195 i am in north idaho so carrots potatoes and all cold crops do well here. You might be able to grow carrots during winter but you wont get anywhere near the yield in the south.
Goodness, you’ve got it going lady!!! Thank you for the tips!! I took notes. I am so tired of those crazy/weird looking carrots that yield nothing. I love to can my garden goods!! Love watching your shares!!!!!
WOW not that's a haul of gorgeous carrots! And you can grow more in the same year? Amazing! Just Lovely, that's why I miss you. Thanks again for sharing . Jo Jo in VT
I scrub them very lightly with a plastic mesh dish scrubby same as potatoes. It is the only thing I use it on & my mom still gives me sideways looks. She don't like my ways!
I like to eat the skin of baked potatoes. But I dislike all the people touching them in the store so it is just a habit I got into to wash dirt & potential nastiness off. As to carrots, I peel them for boiling which is my favorite way to eat them- in stew! That way the peels feed the vermicompost.
Have you read Dr. Axe’s book “Eat Dirt”. He describes organic grown carrots vs store bought and non organic and that the dirt from our organic home grown gardens have amazing probiotics and eating them with the skins on can benefit us. This was so therapeutic watching this. I wish I had a root cellar
On this bitterly cold, brightly sunny end of fall day, I found this so relaxing & pleasurable. It was a nice break. Now back to housework & cooking something to eat - an open faced broiled sandwich my mom used to make - of mostly cooked bacon, sliced tomato on grainy bread, with a blanket of a very nice NY state cheddar. When the cheddar browns up a bit - it's time to eat. Then back to cleaning up the kitchen. Later, I'm making a simple sauce & blanching a heap of fresh cranberries to soak in the syrup a while, & then lay them out on parchment to dry in a slow oven.They're a joy in scones & muffins, but best when eaten with raw nuts, toasted pumpkin & sunflower seeds, & maybe some cheese & an apple. Loved those dried flowers - piled on the bench. It's beyond words, just how pleasing it was to see you cutting & grouping them together, & then hanging them in a pass through or doorway like that. It felt almost as though I was there, doing it myself, as I love this type of activity - & now it's a matter of waiting until spring, as we approach the shortest day of the year, & it's been in the teens & single digits. That combination of flowers & leaves looks so sumptuous & elegant...yet creating that tableau - not counting the months of tending the plants - was such a simple thing to do. And I appreciated your narrative exploring how meaningful it is to continue to create beauty in our lives. Seeing those harvested flowers seems to have stirred my senses & uplifted my spirits. I never knew you could dry sedum flowers like that - & yours are so much bigger than mine were, & so is your lavender! You, your family, home & gardens are just so lovely & gentle. This was such a great, unexpected escape from all the political rancor I've been steeped in for months now. To see your kids taking this all in, & helping was a nice feeling too. Thank you to you all, & Happy New Year.
Garth Wunsch yes hybrid seed can reproduce. Yes sometimes it is sterile but more often than not you will still get carrot from carrot hybrid or not. The hybrid just may not be the clone to the parent as in heirloom seed is. But hybrids do produce and are edible too. A carrot is still a carrot.
Ms Pat a hybrid is not modified like saying it’s now a gmo and shouldn’t be eaten. Besides a carrot is a root vegetable so it produces a carrot without having to be pollinated so what you plant it what you get. The only way that changes is if you let the carrot go to seed and you do that with another type of carrot also close by. The bees or other pollinators would then carry the pollen from one kind of carrot to the other and therefore create a hybrid now from those seeds. If you then save those seeds and plant them next year you will still get a carrot BUT you just may not get the pure form carrot meaning it could be a carrot like either type you had planted the year before or a new kind that has now cross dna from both kinds of carrot plants. Therefore called a hybrid. Still edible and still a carrot.
Thanks for a great video, miss you when your gone! You could post daily and I would be in heaven! I loved the look into your cellar! Love the filling up of your walk in!
This morning I looked up how to do this exact winter storage technique and watched a few videos. Then you post yours, so odd! Anyway, your video on this is my favorite! I started my carrots late so they won't be ready for a few weeks but now I know that I'm for sure going to try this!
In the days before refrigeration, up in the alps the self sufficient farmers put carrots in piles of sand in their earth cellar..stayed good through the winter. Lots of stuff they dehydrated too.
Just wanted to say a quick thank you and your family for sharing your knowledge and wonderful video's. I stumbled across your channel a while back and thought to myself, what a wonderful family and how relaxing and knowledgeable your channel is. So again thank you and God bless.
So happy for your abundant harvest and LOVE your root cellar. I actually stopped planting carrots for the last few gardens because of the puny results. Your tips have given me new hope and I still have time to plant some for fall.
Great vid, thanks for sharing, good to see a kid eating a carrot instead of junk. Yes, fresh makes a world of difference. I hated veggies as a kid but would eat them at grandmas and she asked why not at home. She bought fresh from the Farmers Market in Seattle, not canned garbage. Gardening is a skill everyone with even a small yard would do good to implement. It gets you reconnected to nature, provides experience you may NEED in an uncertain world instead of crying or freaking out later that you may starve.
I love this video and your tips. I did not even plant carrots for the last several years because of the puny results, but this gives me hope, and I still have time to plant a patch for fall. So happy for your bumper crop. LOVE your root cellar.
Love your garden. Love your root cellar. I am a market gardener and for many years we raised nearly all of the food our family ate. Now I sell at several local farmers markets and help feed others as well. Using a high rotation high density growing method you would be amazed at how much food you can grow on a very small amount of land. My garden is one third of an acre soon to be expanding to one full acre so I can not only feed mat large family but make a living doing it. Love what you guys are doing. Keep up the great work.
Last year we had a great crop of carrot with just the regular little seeds. We decided to try some of the coated seeds. The ones we bought we pink. Disappointing hardly any came up. Glad you had good luck with them.
Watched the whole thing to find out how to store root vegetables only to find out you have a root cellar!!!! Yes, I know root cellars are the best way to store root vegetables it’s been done for thousands of years.
This year is our first year for growing carrots, the soil in the raised beds is already loose so I hope it works out. Yours look great. I sewed my seeds about two weeks ago hoping for a fall crop. Hope I'm not too late.
Such an informative and well-produced video. I smiled at “for what it’s worth, I never peel my carrots.” You said it just as I was wondering. They were beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I don't peel my carrots either, scrub them really good you don't need to, the skins carry the most nutrients, even potatoes, as long as you are growing them, with no chemicals
Shaye I just love your videos. They make my day. Thanks for pouring your efforts and time into sharing your successes and experience with us. Thank you! Thank you! And those carrots are absolutely beautiful!
Superb video. Johnny's is the best. Thanks for your advice on pelleted seed. I raise carrots in raised beds, but too much rain in August will cause bottom rot. I always heard that sand makes the best thing to keep them in during winter. Thanks for showing the kitchen area and cooking.
I've never figured out how to store root crops before, this was very helpful, ran across this video trying to figure out radishes. Btw I never peel my carrots either if I grow them myself.
Thanks for the tips, Shaye, especially the one about the potting soil. I’ve heard of using wet sand before, but not the potting soil. We had a huge carrot harvest this year as well, although I’m not sure I grew storage carrots. I also don’t have a walk in cooler, so I’ll try my cellar.
What temp do you keep it in your walk in cooler? Have you ever used play sand instead of potting soil? I can't seem to find potting soil that doesn't have chemical fertilizers in it.
Carrot advice for those who don't have big space for rows and rows of in-bed carrots: The best luck I've had with carrots is container growing shorter varieties. Right now, I've got about 50 scarlet nantes and danvers half-longs in 2 15 gallon tubs along the side of my driveway. And then I just do 2 harvests a year, spring and fall. About 100 carrots in a small space over the course of a year Ps. Thanks for the great storing advice. Your carrots are beautiful.
Great video really enjoyed it good to see the child loves the carrot. it’s children like that that will be the future the education she’s receiving is priceless.
I admire your family’s hard work as much as this great video you have made possible!! Great human beings you are! Thank you and to the great folks who gave you tips for this knowledge! 👍🇺🇸🙏❤️
Hey all! Happy to be back and sharing this skill with you - I didn't know how to do it until someone showed me! I hope it helps you grow HUGE CARROTS ;)
Fantastic.I've grown some ugly, hard to clean, twisted carrots. Occasionally some decent looking ones but never straight, beautiful big ones like yours. Pelleted seed sounds great. I haven't heard of using potting soil. Is this better than damp sand?
This is better than HGTV!!
Can I ask why you chose potting soil over something inorganic like sand? Do you worry about it getting mouldy?
My mom would store carrots in Eastern Europe on a balcony in a box full of sand. I believe that she let them be there during the winter or far enough into the winter.
Thank you for another beautiful visit/video of your home. Do you only water the potting mix once, before you store them in the walk in?
Great info. Tip for whoever...if you don't use pelleted seed, put your seed in an old pepper shaker and use that to spread seed in your garden. Although carrots are pretty tough, when you are storing fruit or veg long term, it is important not to bruise them. A bruise can become a spot of rot which can ruin the entire bin of food. So while throwing carrots in a wheelbarrow is not a huge deal, do not do this with potatoes or apples, etc! We use sand for our storage. It is easy to sift and store for reuse the next year. Being as sustainable as possible is important to us, plus saves money. And don't forget, carrot tops are edible!
Do you have a channel 😃
Why do you have to store them in sand or dirt? Why wouldn’t a cold room be good enough?
@@gwenstone9685 Maybe because of the air exposure? I’m not sure, that’s just what I would think
@@Sariahec yup...the get soft and pliable
@@Sariahec thanks I though that too but wasn’t sure
You can save your best carrots and plant them in spring and let them flower and so you get seed..! Same goes for onions..
I rooted radish tops in winter and bolted in spring still getting more seed all summer and grew one and ate it from my seed. Now have more going all from the store bought radish and rooted the tops! Lots of veggies regrow
😯🤯 thanks for the advise!
oh right. i didnt know that .
@@MrSeebobski Pull cut the top off with how much left of the radish 4 cms? Then replant.
@@Barskor1 about 4 mm or 1/8-1/4 inches
Aside from the great info, she’s got the nicest narration voice I’ve ever heard. And yep, my carrots were absolutely pitiful last year. On my way to buy a broadfork and pelleted seeds!!
I can’t handle her narrative ... sad but true🙁. Too put on for me. I keep trying though ..
I can't seem to grow a single vegetable to its full size lol
You will love the pelleted seeds. I use them and do not need to thin them. I just put them about 2 inches apart and when they get big enough i thin them and eat them.
Wonder were to get that broad folk
like Shawshank redemption but for carrots
another way to plant tiny carrot seed is roll out a long length of paper towel and set the seed in rows on the towel in the proper spacing then lightly moisten the towel with a spray bottle and let dry over night, the seeds will stick to the towel, then cut into strips of seeds and plant in the garden. gives you even spacing and all the seeds are planted at the proper depth.
roy hoco ::: Brilliant idea!
They call it seed tape. This year I’ve seen them being sold in stores!
I saw a video with a British gentleman, he used a cut piece of a plastic dollar store basket, the mesh type and used each square (or every few squares depending on size) this was for growing in buckets. It spaced them out evenly.
I imagine that's a great tip for any seed. Something to do in the non gardening weeks of winter.
This works well and I have used the method many times...what I find is even more impactful is to recycle paper egg cartons and then they are already nicely spaced, plus you leave in the eggshells, and the seeds benefit from the calcium ions!
is one more piece of advice welcomed? it makes me crazy when people throw vegetables into a barrow, bucket or onto any hard surface! be gentle with them to make them last, bruises and cuts lead to premature rot after all your hard work and patience...
260 pounds is an excellent yield. i’m taking up chantenay and nantes any day now - not 260 lbs though. well done
_ dave yes! Don’t bruise your veg!
We are also red cored chantenay carrot people
218lbs for us this year
Christy Blodgett wow!!! excellent. Happy Thanksgiving Christy
Glad you said this _dave, was driving me bonkers too
I'm in no way an expert, but I cringed every time one got thrown!
You made a cold room! My husband built a cold room for our neighbor. He uses it to hang game. We also have a friend who has a cold room for her flowers. She grows several types of flowers and uses the room not only for game, but for flower arrangements she donates to convalescent hospitals. We'll be making ours hopefully next spring. Nice!
Making me wish I had land, a garden, and root seller. ~Smile!
Ciecie You don’t need land you can grow micro greens anywhere in your house, go on have a go they are so delicious 😋👍👍
Email me meekerbrandon@ymail.com
I have a lot of experience in grow with no space.
And you can grow on buckets of you don't have a land.
Don't count out your lawn or what you can grow in pots on a patio. If you have a lawn you can turn it into a garden. I use raised garden beds but I've watched videos where people turn their whole yard into a food Forest.
ciecie newson: I grow alot of produce on our balcony. any space not used is wasted.
I tasted a carrot from my garden and i had to just stop for a minute and appreciate the floral notes and intense sweetness i tasted... its truly incredible.
Intriguing, I've never seen carrots stored that way in a root cellar. I hope you're going to do one on how you store your potatoes in the cellar also.
Thanks so much for sharing your garden with us,
Jimmy
I watched this and did the same thing she said to do, just like the video and I JUST found 30# of Rotten Carrot MUSH!! Over HALF my First Year carrot harvest gone to chit because i was duped by the cute video and music!! DO NOT WET AND STORE CARROTS IN SOIL IN YOUR CELLER OR COOL CLOSETS!! I just learned the hard way.
I'm so jealous ! What a fantastic way to feed your family . There must be such satisfaction in growing your own healthy food.
If you have an actual winter, like here in Canada, you can leave the carrots in the ground and harvest in the spring. They must be harvested as soon as the soil thaws though. This way, we only harvest what we'll need throughout the winter and have freshly picked carrots come Springtime. 😁
I did not know that! Thank you! We are in a condo so cold storage is a no for us.
Thanks!
Can you do the same with potatoes? Thanks for the great tip.
Good on you for sharing this idea. I also live in Canada (Okanagan). We have been leaving our root veggies in ground through winter as well. Cover with thick layer of mulch before first freeze. Mark rows with stake at either end. Uncover snow and dig what you need and move stake to last removal spot for next dig. We can get 2-3feet of snow but still know where veggie rows are. Parsnip,beets, potatoes all good.
Tried that with carrots (also live in Canada), and they turned to mush by spring lol, but I didn't mulch. My parsley did great throughout the winter though.
That is absolutely what gardening is all about.... the harvest, and being able to enjoy it for months after it came out of the ground!
When I was a child in the summer I went to our country side house. Mu grandparents were growing everything that you could possibly need (for 4 households, theirs, my aunt's, ours and for the summer house of course). So I saw how much work it was. I don't think I really appreciated it much because it was always there and I hated to have to go to the garden and help. Then Grandpa died and suddenly there were no more home grown veggies and fruits and I started missing thus times. Now all grown up and I started dreaming of an own garden about 5 years ago. Suddenly I want to plant tomatoes and potatoes and carrots and all that there is. I remember some of the methods but not all of them. So now that grandma died as well (she was 92), I started watching videos about food preservation and gardening.
What I want to say is thank you for sharing your knowledge! My grandparents used to put carrots in sand for the winter but this seems to work just fine. 😊
Step one: Move from the city to a farm....
easy to say
m 74 city farming might be an option or container gardens or hydroponic gardens or community gardens ... there are many many examples around the world. thepreppingguide.com/city-farming/
Modified Step One: Container Gardening.
Yessssss
You could maybe start by getting an allotment/community garden where you have a plot in a shared area.
OMG Shaye, you’ve given me hope for a carrot crop. I’m ORANGE with envy over yours! Btw, what a huge accomplishment: 260 lbs!🥕Congratulations! I love the way you tell your stories. Thank you for sharing the beauty of your lives with us❣️
WHAT A GREAT VIDEO ...... WHAT A GREAT FAMILY ....... WHAT A GREAT HOMESTEAD !!!!
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Know what I love about your channel, you don't mind sharing the weeds with us. I come from a long line of gardeners and there are always "fruit" among the weeds....sounds like a new ladie's Bible study for me...thanks for the lovely videos.
You should watch Hollis and Nancy's Homestead video on planting carrots... He made a template for planting them which keeps you from having to thin them. Love your channel!
We had a fabulous carrot harvest this year. We have enough in the root cellar to do is until next summer. Makes me so happy. We store them in peat moss in large wooden boxes in the root cellar. We are no till gardeners. Our carrots this year are enormous.
Joann M For no till gardening would you ever use the broadfork to just loosen the soil?
Don't discard the leaves! Carrot leaves are actually edible, and make a tasty addition to any salad!
I juice mine! They are great for healing the kidneys and as an antiseptic! Try using it in a homemade mouth wash :)
I never knew this - thanks!
Cauliflower leaves as well! Good for salad, juiceys, or feeding the bunny or the vermicompost. As well as the goats, sheep, etc.
Carrot leaves also make a good and tasty soup.
Thank you I was wondering about this as I watched her harvest.
just planted hardneck garlic . spanish roja, ajo rojo and red grain 20 cloves each 19 in memphis tn glad to find your channel it was my first year growing carrots i hope next year i will have a harvest like yours
Never seen the potting soil saving method. Thank you for that
Works great , we used damp sand because that is more available locally for free
@@jdbjoshua well if i get the property by the ocean, nice to know about the sand :)
@@jdbjoshua Why damp!
@@saranaidu9836 it keeps the carrots from drying out and shriveling up you need a little bit of moisture to keep them crisp
Damp sand works just as well, and brushes or shakes off more easily. Research ‘building a clamp’ the old fashioned way of covering and storing roots and spuds all winter.
How clever is that! Your homemade walk-in cooler is simply a small, well insulated room with an air conditioner!? I love it!!!
I was thinking to do this, bubble foil & a small A/C or dehumidifer, with a floored shed, in Fla.
It's the electric bill for me 😬. Especially when we have a pump house on the property that requires a lot of energy.
What a harvest! Your cooler is filling up fast. Thanks for sharing your tips.
I use damp peat moss for carrots and beets,but I was taught to leave 1-2 inches of stem on them and not to wash them before storing ,same with spuds
Last year my grandsons pulled the carrots and some were left behind. Late winter I was prepping beds and pulled them. They were the best, sweet and crunchy! This year I’m going to leave a section in the ground, cover them with something insulating like straw and see what happens come spring. I’m jealous of your walk in cooler. We have a basement so the plans are forming in my head. Blessings to all.
I love to read about your Grandson.......teach him your wisdom about the earth. "TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL....."
My new favorite channel. All my life all I ever wanted was to have a beautiful wife with a couple of babies running around and to spend hours in the garden and cooking from it drinking wine. Looks fun and like lots of amazing memories are being made!! Well done
Everything about this was fascinating. I live in the Deep South (near the gulf coast) so the idea of a cellar, cold storage, Even rinsing your carrots in that wicker basket- the recurring thought for me was “down here we’d have mold and mildew” 😌.... what a beautiful system you have. I actually researched broad forking and priced some locally on your recommendation .
Same here! Live in Texas, wishing we could have a root cellar but it would flood :/
@Shannon Hazlet I'm in NW Fla, quite near the Gulf so I have the same problem
I noticed her cold cellar was lined with bubble foil & taped with the good silver tape & a small air conditioner was through the wall by the door . . . . . Maybe we could do that in a shady spot with a shed? Foundation or floor covered with steel mesh?
Perhaps a really good dehumidifier could work?
Anybody?
@@mspat8195 i am in north idaho so carrots potatoes and all cold crops do well here. You might be able to grow carrots during winter but you wont get anywhere near the yield in the south.
We cover out carrots, grown in boxes, with dry fall leaves. Have never had any carrots get frozen here in NW Mt.
Young lady God bless y’all. Thanks for sharing your beautiful family and lifestyle with us. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Goodness, you’ve got it going lady!!! Thank you for the tips!! I took notes. I am so tired of those crazy/weird looking carrots that yield nothing. I love to can my garden goods!! Love watching your shares!!!!!
This was so helpful- and beautiful carrots 🥕!
You are living the dream!!
Thank you for sharing! ☺️
WOW not that's a haul of gorgeous carrots!
And you can grow more in the same year? Amazing!
Just Lovely, that's why I miss you. Thanks again for sharing .
Jo Jo in VT
Glad to see you again and thank you for sharing your friends advice on growing carrots. Advice is always good❤❤❤❤
Can't wait for the next video.
Inspiring 😊❤️. Once my husband and I made the switch to organic or home grown, we don’t peel our carrots either..😊
I scrub them very lightly with a plastic mesh dish scrubby same as potatoes. It is the only thing I use it on & my mom still gives me sideways looks. She don't like my ways!
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My wife and I never peel carrots or potatoes. The skin, of a baked potato, in my opinion, is the best part.
I like to eat the skin of baked potatoes. But I dislike all the people touching them in the store so it is just a habit I got into to wash dirt & potential nastiness off. As to carrots, I peel them for boiling which is my favorite way to eat them- in stew! That way the peels feed the vermicompost.
Never been lucky enough to have carrots like that. A great way to store them also!
Wow! That is a lot of work. I am very thankful for farmers that grow and store them for me. So very grateful.
What a fantastic harvest! Amazing how they store so well in the damp soil like that, well done on the cool store room, your gardens are incredible :)
Have you read Dr. Axe’s book “Eat Dirt”. He describes organic grown carrots vs store bought and non organic and that the dirt from our organic home grown gardens have amazing probiotics and eating them with the skins on can benefit us. This was so therapeutic watching this. I wish I had a root cellar
Thanks for sharing your tips on growing carrots- love love love your videos
On this bitterly cold, brightly sunny end of fall day, I found this so relaxing & pleasurable. It was a nice break. Now back to housework & cooking something to eat - an open faced broiled sandwich my mom used to make - of mostly cooked bacon, sliced tomato on grainy bread, with a blanket of a very nice NY state cheddar. When the cheddar browns up a bit - it's time to eat. Then back to cleaning up the kitchen.
Later, I'm making a simple sauce & blanching a heap of fresh cranberries to soak in the syrup a while, & then lay them out on parchment to dry in a slow oven.They're a joy in scones & muffins, but best when eaten with raw nuts, toasted pumpkin & sunflower seeds, & maybe some cheese & an apple.
Loved those dried flowers - piled on the bench. It's beyond words, just how pleasing it was to see you cutting & grouping them together, & then hanging them in a pass through or doorway like that. It felt almost as though I was there, doing it myself, as I love this type of activity - & now it's a matter of waiting until spring, as we approach the shortest day of the year, & it's been in the teens & single digits.
That combination of flowers & leaves looks so sumptuous & elegant...yet creating that tableau - not counting the months of tending the plants - was such a simple thing to do. And I appreciated your narrative exploring how meaningful it is to continue to create beauty in our lives. Seeing those harvested flowers seems to have stirred my senses & uplifted my spirits. I never knew you could dry sedum flowers like that - & yours are so much bigger than mine were, & so is your lavender! You, your family, home & gardens are just so lovely & gentle. This was such a great, unexpected escape from all the political rancor I've been steeped in for months now.
To see your kids taking this all in, & helping was a nice feeling too. Thank you to you all, & Happy New Year.
OH MY GOSH!! YOUR COLD STORAGE ROOM!! Is there a "how to" For that?! 😁
Foam foil-backed insulation boards. Cheap and effective.
@@cgavin1 Looks like they have an AC hookup into that room as well.
If you’re saving seed, make sure it’s an open pollinated/heirloom variety- hybrid carrots cannot reproduce true .
Garth Wunsch yes hybrid seed can reproduce. Yes sometimes it is sterile but more often than not you will still get carrot from carrot hybrid or not. The hybrid just may not be the clone to the parent as in heirloom seed is. But hybrids do produce and are edible too. A carrot is still a carrot.
@@goodtogo6046 no, a carrot is not just a carrot when it's been modified.
Ms Pat a hybrid is not modified like saying it’s now a gmo and shouldn’t be eaten. Besides a carrot is a root vegetable so it produces a carrot without having to be pollinated so what you plant it what you get. The only way that changes is if you let the carrot go to seed and you do that with another type of carrot also close by. The bees or other pollinators would then carry the pollen from one kind of carrot to the other and therefore create a hybrid now from those seeds. If you then save those seeds and plant them next year you will still get a carrot BUT you just may not get the pure form carrot meaning it could be a carrot like either type you had planted the year before or a new kind that has now cross dna from both kinds of carrot plants. Therefore called a hybrid. Still edible and still a carrot.
We could really make use of community gardens in school yards (tended weekends and after hours) and in as many Neighborhoods as possible.
Add the school children, teach & spend time with them. 💞👵
Thanks for a great video, miss you when your gone! You could post daily and I would be in heaven! I loved the look into your cellar! Love the filling up of your walk in!
This morning I looked up how to do this exact winter storage technique and watched a few videos. Then you post yours, so odd!
Anyway, your video on this is my favorite!
I started my carrots late so they won't be ready for a few weeks but now I know that I'm for sure going to try this!
In the days before refrigeration, up in the alps the self sufficient farmers put carrots in piles of sand in their earth cellar..stayed good through the winter. Lots of stuff they dehydrated too.
I felt like i was being read the beginning of a Nicholas Sparks book...
Just wanted to say a quick thank you and your family for sharing your knowledge and wonderful video's. I stumbled across your channel a while back and thought to myself, what a wonderful family and how relaxing and knowledgeable your channel is. So again thank you and God bless.
So happy for your abundant harvest and LOVE your root cellar. I actually stopped planting carrots for the last few gardens because of the puny results. Your tips have given me new hope and I still have time to plant some for fall.
That root cellar tho!!
Great vid, thanks for sharing, good to see a kid eating a carrot instead of junk. Yes, fresh makes a world of difference. I hated veggies as a kid but would eat them at grandmas and she asked why not at home. She bought fresh from the Farmers Market in Seattle, not canned garbage. Gardening is a skill everyone with even a small yard would do good to implement. It gets you reconnected to nature, provides experience you may NEED in an uncertain world instead of crying or freaking out later that you may starve.
Little short stubby things... remember me of my husband 😁
Awesome job with the carrots. You can't go wrong using a broad fork.
I love this video and your tips. I did not even plant carrots for the last several years because of the puny results, but this gives me hope, and I still have time to plant a patch for fall. So happy for your bumper crop. LOVE your root cellar.
Germinate them in a plastic bag on a wet paper towel. Be very careful when planting them.
Will be planting again on Monday. Thanks.
Love your garden. Love your root cellar. I am a market gardener and for many years we raised nearly all of the food our family ate. Now I sell at several local farmers markets and help feed others as well. Using a high rotation high density growing method you would be amazed at how much food you can grow on a very small amount of land. My garden is one third of an acre soon to be expanding to one full acre so I can not only feed mat large family but make a living doing it. Love what you guys are doing. Keep up the great work.
Glad your channel came up on recommendations list
Last year we had a great crop of carrot with just the regular little seeds. We decided to try some of the coated seeds. The ones we bought we pink. Disappointing hardly any came up. Glad you had good luck with them.
Hi the Elliotts your garden is lovely and all those carrotts amazing such a healthy lifestyle you have bless you all .much love.♥♥
Those are beautiful carrots.
We have raised garden beds because of our clay soil.
I hope we can grow some carrots.
I would have never thought to store them in dirt! We won't have enough this year to do that but when I do I am going to try this!
WOW! That’s awesome what you are doing and it’s very kind of you to share it with everyone.
Watched the whole thing to find out how to store root vegetables only to find out you have a root cellar!!!! Yes,
I know root cellars are the best way to store root vegetables it’s been done for thousands of years.
If I didn't peel the carrots I would use a small brush too clean them, they looked dirty even after you washed them. I enjoyed your videos.
This year is our first year for growing carrots, the soil in the raised beds is already loose so I hope it works out. Yours look great. I sewed my seeds about two weeks ago hoping for a fall crop. Hope I'm not too late.
Such an informative and well-produced video. I smiled at “for what it’s worth, I never peel my carrots.” You said it just as I was wondering. They were beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! Amazing harvest! Thanks for the great tips!🥕🥕🥕🥕
Loving the harvest, cant wait to see your fridge fill up for winter, thank you for sharing 💖🙏
My dream is to have a garden and a home as wonderful as your families!💚
I don't peel my carrots either, scrub them really good you don't need to, the skins carry the most nutrients, even potatoes, as long as you are growing them, with no chemicals
What a delightful video, filmed so well. Such a great harvest. Thanks for sharing 😀💕
Shaye I just love your videos. They make my day. Thanks for pouring your efforts and time into sharing your successes and experience with us. Thank you! Thank you! And those carrots are absolutely beautiful!
Such an amazing share! My first batch was a fail and I’m going to try your advice for my second batch. A big thank you!
I hope one day to have a cooler as full from a seasons harvest. Living the dream Shaye
This was awesome! Thank you so much! Please do more like this! Especially cold storage.
Superb video. Johnny's is the best. Thanks for your advice on pelleted seed. I raise carrots in raised beds, but too much rain in August will cause bottom rot. I always heard that sand makes the best thing to keep them in during winter. Thanks for showing the kitchen area and cooking.
God bless you best wishes for you and your family from iran.
You can store carrots standing up in a barrel in layers with sand.
I've never figured out how to store root crops before, this was very helpful, ran across this video trying to figure out radishes. Btw I never peel my carrots either if I grow them myself.
Loved the warmth and family groove of this video!
I love your carrots. Thank you for sharing.
Root veggies are so much fun to grow! Best wishes garden friends.
Thanks for the tips, Shaye, especially the one about the potting soil. I’ve heard of using wet sand before, but not the potting soil. We had a huge carrot harvest this year as well, although I’m not sure I grew storage carrots. I also don’t have a walk in cooler, so I’ll try my cellar.
Its great when your soil reaches it's peak performance and your pulling big long clean carrots.
What temp do you keep it in your walk in cooler? Have you ever used play sand instead of potting soil? I can't seem to find potting soil that doesn't have chemical fertilizers in it.
I wash my carrots outside an have a bucket to catch the water so I recycle the water. The dirt eventually clogs the sink. Love the video.
I’ve never been successful with carrots! Thank you
Carrot advice for those who don't have big space for rows and rows of in-bed carrots: The best luck I've had with carrots is container growing shorter varieties. Right now, I've got about 50 scarlet nantes and danvers half-longs in 2 15 gallon tubs along the side of my driveway. And then I just do 2 harvests a year, spring and fall. About 100 carrots in a small space over the course of a year
Ps. Thanks for the great storing advice. Your carrots are beautiful.
I'm amazed that you call planting one crop in a row "market" gardening. In the south it's just what we call gardening.
Same here in Tn.
Those are pretty! You go girl. What blessings. Proof of hard work
May your carrot grow long and strong,my friend. 😂😂
Great video really enjoyed it good to see the child loves the carrot. it’s children like that that will be the future the education she’s receiving is priceless.
Thank you for sharing! So beautiful and so helpful!
Your voice is very soothing. I could listen to you talk about growing carrots while getting a massage at the spa ❤
Thank you for sharing! I'm inspired by everything you do. Blessings to you and your beautiful family : )
Good to see there are young people carrying on the traditional food stores like my grandmother
2:01 That adorable little voice bless her heart ❤️
I admire your family’s hard work as much as this great video you have made possible!! Great human beings you are! Thank you and to the great folks who gave you tips for this knowledge! 👍🇺🇸🙏❤️
Also: "That's me!" "Ahaha. Do you see yourself?" "Mhm!" D'awww...
Great tips, this is our first year for starting out homestead, the seedlings are growing, I'll have videos this week.