Best Practices for Harvesting Root Vegetables

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Autumn is here and it is time to start organizing your garden for harvesting your root vegetables and setting up how you will store them over the winter. Harvesting Root Vegetables by Ron Krupp     Autumn is a busy time of the year so busy that is my head is spinning with all the tasks to do in the garden patch. It won’t be long before I am harvesting winter squash and digging carrots, turnips and beets. A month earlier, I was pulling onions and digging potatoes. One thing for sure. The harvest has begun, and soon the first frosts will arrive, and I’ll be heating my woodstove on these cool mornings. At the same time, there is beauty in their hills. The autumn air is brisk, there are mist and fog in the valleys, and the maple leaves are beginning to shimmer in hues of red, orange and yellow. Onions and Spuds – After laying the onions and spuds out in the hot summer sun for three to four days to dry and cure, place in paper bags, bushel baskets or cardboard boxes, whatever is at hand, and store them in a cool, dry place. If the weather turns cold, cover them up. Onions are tricky to dry so they may need more time for curing. Make sure to check them out after a month to see if any rot. One rotten onion or potato can ruin a whole bag. Don’t clean the potatoes or onions off. I make sure to save about 40 pounds of five different varieties of seed potatoes I grow. I don’t re-plant the ones that are infected or diseased. Label the baskets you store the potatoes in, or you will do what I have done and forgotten which ones which are. Winter Squash…

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