Keep Vegetables in the Ground for Winter: Organic Gardening
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Want to preserve your vegetables during the winter? Have you ever considered storing them in the ground. Storing your vegetables in the ground is a great solution for preserving your crops.
The days when everyone had an underground cellar full of produce may be gone, but here’s a simple technique that will give you sweeter, crisper winter vegetables than any you can buy at the grocery store. This method takes advantage of the fact that some vegetables can survive freezing temperatures and remain fresh, even when buried under a blanket of snow.
You can store carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips, celery, rutabagas, cabbages, leeks, kale, and spinach in the garden through winter by using this mulching technique. …
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