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Zusatztext "The most complete book on the subject you are likely to find." Informationen zum Autor Mike Bubel co-authored the classic best-selling guide Root Cellaring with his wife, Nancy. They were avid gardeners for many years in Philadelphia and then on their farm in Wellsville, Pennsylvania. Nancy Bubel, co-author of the classic best-selling guide, Root Cellaring, was a gardening columnist for Country Journal magazine and wrote for Mother Earth News, Organic Gardening, Horticulture, Family Circle, Woman’s Day and New Shelter magazines. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Society for Economic Botany, and a life member of both the Seed Savers Exchange and the Friends of the Trees Society. Klappentext Discover how easy it can be to turn some extra space in your basement, garage, or even your closet into your very own root cellar. Stretch the resources of your small backyard garden further than ever before, without devoting hundreds of hours to canning! This informative and inspiring guide shows you not only how to construct your own root cellar, but how to best use the earth’s naturally cool, stable temperature as an energy-saving way to store nearly 100 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables. Vorwort Discover how easy it can be to turn some extra space in your basement, garage, or even your closet into your very own root cellar. Zusammenfassung Discover how easy it can be to turn some extra space in your basement, garage, or even your closet into your very own root cellar. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Section One: Starting Right With Storage Vegetables 1. Planting Crops for Fall Storage 2. Good Keepers 3. Growers Keepers: How to Raise Top-Quality Storage Vegetables Section Two: Bringing in the Harvest 4. How to Harvest and Prepare Vegetables for Storage 5. Life After Picking 6. Spoilage 7. Food Value in Winter Keepers Section Three: All the Winter Keepers and How to TreatThem 8. Vegetables 9. Fruits 10. The Underground Garden 11. Other Good Foods to Keep in Natural Cold Storage Section Four: Food Cellars for Everyone 12. Trenches, Keeping-Closets, and Other Vegetable and Fruit Hideaways 13. Planning Your Root Cellar 14. Keeping Things Humming in the Root Cellar 15. The Basement Root Cellar 16. The Excavated Root Cellar Section Five: "Here's What We Did...." 17. Root Cellaring Experiences Section Six: Recipes 18. Cooking Sturdy Keepers Bibliography Sources IndeX ...
