How I Store ROOT VEGETABLES (that last through the winter!) | Market Garden | Grow GREAT carrots!
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2019
- This year, we've already pulled over 250 pounds of carrots out of the market garden... and there's still two beds to go! I'm sharing my tips for growing GREAT carrots and showing you how to store root vegetables (like carrots) that will last through the winter.
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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
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!
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!
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.
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!
Little short stubby things... remember me of my husband 😁
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.
I'm so jealous ! What a fantastic way to feed your family . There must be such satisfaction in growing your own healthy food.
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. 😁
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.
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.
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!
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
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. 😊
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❣️
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
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....."
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.
What a harvest! Your cooler is filling up fast. Thanks for sharing your tips.
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?
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.
WHAT A GREAT VIDEO ...... WHAT A GREAT FAMILY ....... WHAT A GREAT HOMESTEAD !!!!
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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.
Awesome job with the carrots. You can't go wrong using a broad fork.
A little off subject, but your family is so blessed to have a mother and wife like yourself ! May God bless and protect you and yours!
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.
This was so helpful- and beautiful carrots 🥕!
You are living the dream!!
Thank you for sharing! ☺️
Its great when your soil reaches it's peak performance and your pulling big long clean carrots.
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.
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.
Young lady God bless y’all. Thanks for sharing your beautiful family and lifestyle with us. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
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!
Wow! That is a lot of work. I am very thankful for farmers that grow and store them for me. So very grateful.
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.
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.
WOW! That’s awesome what you are doing and it’s very kind of you to share it with everyone.
Root veggies are so much fun to grow! Best wishes garden friends.
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!
Thanks for sharing your tips on growing carrots- love love love your videos
Loved the warmth and family groove of this video!
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.
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!!!!!
Beautiful. We have left the carrots in the ground, and harvested them through the winter here in the Northwest. Of course, some of them were discovered and enjoyed by the beasties.
peas and carrots form a complete protein molecule
Loving the harvest, cant wait to see your fridge fill up for winter, thank you for sharing 💖🙏
I felt like i was being read the beginning of a Nicholas Sparks book...
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 :)
Nothing like a fresh carrot from the garden.
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
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
This was awesome! Thank you so much! Please do more like this! Especially cold storage.
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!
Glad your channel came up on recommendations list
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!
What a delightful video, filmed so well. Such a great harvest. Thanks for sharing 😀💕
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! 👍🇺🇸🙏❤️
You have the most calming and relaxing voice I've ever heard!!
Hi the Elliotts your garden is lovely and all those carrotts amazing such a healthy lifestyle you have bless you all .much love.♥♥
Thank you for sharing! I'm inspired by everything you do. Blessings to you and your beautiful family : )
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.
Never been lucky enough to have carrots like that. A great way to store them also!
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!
@@deborahhanna6640
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.
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!!
"We only farm 2.25 acres here in the Pacific NW and we don't have a huge plot of land."
Meanwhile I'm searching for a home to buy in my area and think 0.9 acres of land is huge 😭😭😭. To have 2.25 acres...I would go nuts. Glad you're doing well on your little nook of dirt! Keep it up! 🤩🤩🤩
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'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.
I love your carrots. Thank you for sharing.
This is the number 1. Businesses, good for Local markets.thanks sharing.
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.
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.
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.
Those are pretty! You go girl. What blessings. Proof of hard work
That is awesome! In these times people need this type of information. Thank you!
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
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. 💞👵
That is awesome! Great way to store them. And I love the root cellar.
I love the rough wall opening in there.. so much character in that!
Beautiful carrots.👏 We’ll have a storage cellar soon in a house we’re renovating and can’t wait to try my hand again at “carroting”. Have a great week and thanks for showing us what you guys have learned. ~ Carol🏡
We cover out carrots, grown in boxes, with dry fall leaves. Have never had any carrots get frozen here in NW Mt.
God bless you best wishes for you and your family from iran.
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 is poetic, soothing and inspirational 💚
Thank you for sharing! So beautiful and so helpful!
Those are beautiful carrots.
We have raised garden beds because of our clay soil.
I hope we can grow some carrots.
Got any of your ilk, friends, cousins, etc. down here in Northern California. Pure blood, Mt. Man, in need of Prepper Earth Mother to help prep for the coming storm!
Nice work and beautiful family! 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.
May your carrot grow long and strong,my friend. 😂😂
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.
What a wonderful harvest! Congratulations!
In the "old time" (I am 72 yrs old and I was the youngest of the house) we had a storage room un the basement and we were storing the root vegetables in a "sand" box (about 8ins high!). We should start to build again a food storage under every houses so that people could store healthy food...
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.
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! Amazing harvest! Thanks for the great tips!🥕🥕🥕🥕
I could just listen to you talk all day haha Thanks for sharing!
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.
I’ve never been successful with carrots! Thank you
Binge watching all your videos, they are amazing!! You’re living my dream life 🙂
Such a nice harvest ♥️