HOW TO STORE CARROTS FOR WINTER (No Refrigeration or Sand Needed) HARVEST FRESH CARROTS ALL WINTER!
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2020
- Grow a lot of carrots? Watch this video to learn how to store carrots for winter in the ground. Winterize the carrots in the ground and harvest all winter on an as-needed basis all winter long! No refrigeration or buckets of sand needed. Overwinter your carrots in the ground ... This video will show you how to store carrots over winter without having to dig them up in the fall. How long can carrots stay in the ground? Watch the video and find out!
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This method works great for my little farm... How do you overwinter your garden carrots?
WHEN DO YOU START COVERING THE CARROTS?? I HAVE A BED HERE IN TENN OF CARROTS AND BEETS AND WOULD LOVE TO STORE THEM ASAP BUT IT IS EARLY JULY CAN I COVER NOW??
@@dcdc5204 Don't cover them until temps get below freezing at night and are staying there. I'm in a growing zone 4 in Montana and we have pretty cold winters. Even so, I don't cover until early Nov. TENN is has much warmer winters and much earlier springs.... not sure if this will work for a growing zone 8 due to it being so warm (?) You'll have to experiment!
@@dcdc5204 July is way too early. For Tennessee, I would recommend planting your carrots in September for harvest / cover for overwintering in Nov/Dec onward. Bolero seed would be a good choice.
What variety of carrots did you plant in this video? Thank you for this simple and very informative video.
@@UnalteredHealthandWellness hello Anna, I plant a French heirloom carrot named Juan Obtuse Du Doubs that I buy here at Baker Creek Seeds :
www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/carrots/jaune-obtuse-du-doubs-carrot
It's a very large carrot that can take the overwintering in the ground well. They will grow huge and some splitting will occur, but significantly less though than traditonal/popular carrot varieties like Scarlet Nantes. Good Luck!
Interesting! I've seen in foreign movies where they cover their crops with fresh dung from their livestock. It kept them warm during the winter and they were able to harvest veggies and sell them during the winter when no one else could.
Great video! We are in zone 5b in Maine and i use leaves to insulate the carrots - same for parsnips. Not only is this the best way to store most root vegetables, but flavor is much sweeter. Also, I use Agribon row cover when night time temperatures are in the twenties and then apply leaves when temperatures drop further, just before the first snow fall. Thank you for sharing - this is a very important sustainable agriculture practice because no energy is used and the end product is better!
Had to give up on root crops here. Voles, Chipmunks and Rabbits were determined my carrot, cabbage patch was a free for all veggie platter.. Unfortunately we also have Deer & Bear who graze as well. A good fence helped and over-planting offers us modest amounts for ourselves.. Love your videos... Thanks.
Great video, thank you. Subbed. Love fm London, UK.
I use tree leaves and on top of that put a piece of old roofing sheet metal. Those are some big carrots.
SUPER CUTE hat! If you made it can you share the pattern or link to it? Thanks! Good info here…
I learned something new today, thank you!
Thank you for this video and I am very grateful you are in the same growing season! So many gardening videos I watch are from folks elsewhere!! I assume it is because we are very blessed in this area to have a wide variety of things we can grow and access all year round that it isn't a concern. My goal is to preserve mine or the harvest I pick up on a deal in season. We built a cold room this winter but my parsnips & carrots failed in about 10 days..went all limp. Next growing season I will try different methods for in the cold room--ie. sawdust and try again outside?! I have tried the inground method in the past and the ground was just too stiff to get out in January and very rotted by end of February (plus I hate going out there in the winter:). I will try your thicker straw level next year as my cold may not be getting cold enough or too humid? We get anywhere from 4-7degC so theoretically very similar to a fridge and I can store carrots in my kitchen fridge for months. I have not recorded the humidity level in our cold room yet and will address this issue before the next harvest. It is just great to have options. That tidbit about getting to the carrots out before the thaw and not covering until late November is really good info...really means being more careful of the late-season succession planting.
WHEN DO YOU START COVERING THE CARROTS?? I HAVE A BED HERE IN TENN OF CARROTS AND BEETS AND WOULD LOVE TO STORE THEM ASAP BUT IT IS EARLY JULY CAN I COVER NOW??
Thank you very much for this posting. Learned a lot- a bit too late as I pulled all the carrots up before finding this vid. A couple questions. A fair amount of my beets are still in the ground and we're running out of space in the frig for more pickling. To keep them in the soil, should I cut the tops off the beets before adding the straw? Is the packed shredded straw at the local hardware workable as well or just use uncut straw?
The packed shredded bails from the hardware store are great👍 I don't cut my beet tops off...what you saw in the video is what they look like if you left the tops on. I don't think it would hurt anything either if you did decide to cut them off though. It's up to you!
And if you're curious... I did a spring update video too on when I was harvesting those same carrots in late April. You can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/58OUpu7t3NA/v-deo.html .... Inspiration for next year since you've already harvested this year's carrots. Blessings!
What variety of carrot are you using?
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Do you think cedar mulch will work?
I haven't done wood chip mulch for this method so I don't know, sorry!
@@CleanFoodLiving I have 100% organic shaved cedar. So thats good. Ty for responding. Your video was very helpful and I looked up alot!
@@gibsongirl6816 Don't use cedar in the garden, the wood has oils in it that will inhibit decomposition (unless that is what you were aiming for?). Use leaves or straw or even old hay but with hay you may have seeds to contend with next spring. No walnut or cedar chips...
Where can I get straw?
Where I live the local hardware stores carry straw... stores like Ace.
You could grow some wheat and then harvest the straw when the wheat is ready to be harvested.
I’ve never tried this but my parents did and it worked well. It gets -30 to -40 C in the winter (-22 to -40F).
I forgot to mention, they don’t mulch much. We get enough snow to insulate