The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-17
Outdoor Pits or Banks.

Outdoor Pits or Banks.
Outdoor pits or banks are very gen
orally used for keeping potatoes, beets
carrots, turnips, parsnips, cabbage anC
satisfy. Select a well drained location
and make a shallow excavation, some six
or eight inches deep, and Of suitable size
This is lined with straw, leaves or SINH.
! lar material and the vegetables placed In
a conieal pile on the material The yege.
tables are then covered with straw or
similar material, and finally with earth
to depth Of several inches. The depth
Of the earth covering is determined by
the security of the winters in the par
ticular locality. II is well to cover the
pits with straw, corn fodder, or manure
during severe weather. Such pits keep
the above vegetables very well, but have
the objection that il is hard TO get the
material out in cold weather, and where
the pit is once opened IL is desirable to
remove the entire contents For this rea.
son several small pits rather than one
large one should be constructed so that
the entire contents may be removed at
one time. Instead of storing each crop in
a pit by itself, il Is better to place sew,
crsl vegetables OF similar keeping quail.
ity and requirements in the same pit, so
that IL will only be necessary TO open
one pit to get supply of all Of them
In storing several crops in the same pit
it is good plan TO separate them with
straw. leaves or other material The
vegetables from the small pit may be
placed in the basement storage room.
where they can be easily secured as need.
ed for the table.
Cabbage may be stored in special
kind Of bank or pit. The excavation is
made long and narrow and about the
same depth as for the other vegetables
The cabbages are pulled and placed in
rows in the pit with the heads down and
roots up The whole is covered with |
dirt, no straw or litter need be used |
These pits are made as long as desired |
Rs it is possible TO remove portions of |
The stored product without disturbing |
The remainder Cabbage need not be Gov
red as deeply as potatoes, as slight
freezing does not njure the cabbage. |
The heads of cabbage are sometimes
stored in banks or pits in manner sim
lar TO potatoes, turnips, etc. This meth. H
ID is open to the same objection ne when
{ is used for potatoes; il is hard TO get
Il the material when II is needed. An.
'ther method Of storing cabbage consists
n setting the whole plant in trenches
ide by side with the roots down and as
lose together as they can be placed.
Grt is thrown over the roots and against
he stalks 10 the depth Of several inches.
low fence is bull, around the storage
lace and rails, seantlings OF other sup
orts laid across the top. About two
eet Of straw or other material is then
lied on top Of the storage pit.
Celery may be stored in a modified
ype Of outside pit, or in the row where
is grown. When stored in a pit or
rench the plants are taken up and set
de BY side in shallow pit a. close to-
ether as il y feasible TO pack them. and
.ide boards set up along the outside
the pit. Dirt i banked against these
oards. and the top covered over with
,rn fodder or similar material When
'lery j. kept in the row where IL i
town the earth Is banked up around
V plants az the weather gets cold
hen freezing weather occurs the dirt
lould b brought 70 the tops Of the
ants and the ridge covered with coarse
anure straw ~ fodder. heid in place
! mesns Of stakes or boards
0utdoor Caves or Cellars
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