This is the best garden show.

A tip, put the carrots in a cotton bag and bury them in the ground during winter, about 30 cm deep, and take a few out as you need them they should last well into early spring. Mark the spot for snow. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

Charles for president!

Wow, I was expecting some funny routine and adding things to them but... But this is just leave them in a box, basically. How great is that!

It's intriguing how long some vegetables and fruit can actually last. I'm so used to everything growing fuzz within a week of buying it from the supermarket.

"No frills, no fuss, yum!" :-D

I love your channel and the way you teach. Excellent teacher! Watching your garden makes me feel relaxed. I'm from the north of Spain, Galicia, and we have different varieties of turnips but we mainly eat the leaves and save the rest for the animals. Strong plants for the winter.

It seems than when fruit and vegetables are grown in a proper organic method they last and last; contrarily with the new agricultural industria/chemical products (GMO). I'm still reading your book "Organic Vegetables", awesome piece of literature, I can't wait to put in action your methods. Great video! Cheers!!

Beautiful living vegetables are the best kind--healthy food!

Thankyou so much for all your encouraging films

I always go to Charles’ YT page for information on everything! Even in Arizona he has sparked my inspiration and thanks to you my first ever garden is doing very well! Thank you, Charles

This was fantastic. I did not know that store veg and fruit over winter was so simple. Have a marvelous day

There is something so satisfying, even just viewing on YT, seeing all those lovely veg and fruit stored away and ready to use in the winter. The deep orange squash is a beauty.

Fabulous tips! Greatly appreciated!

Hi Charles, I just wanted to said thanks for all your knowledge given and also for the fantastic passion way of teaching. I have watch most of all your videos that I have save on my messenger, specially to put it on practise on our new adventure very soon in our little country house in Chile, so keep safe and warm this lovely UK winter. Regards

Very nice advice Mr. Charles.

I needed to see this. Thank you.

Thanks Charles fabulous tips

Very informative and so practical! I always wondered how we could store our produce.Thank you again!

I'm so glad I found Dowdings methods before I started my allotment. It worked great last season and now once again he has pulled it out the bag with information I haven't heard anywhere, else that will save me time and effort on storing. Thanks again Charles. Everyone at my allotment think in nuts and lazy but I think they are slowly coming around

Thank you! I'm so glad to have found your channel! You break it down so simple to understand!

Great video! Thank you!

Thanks for the tips.

Very informative video. Thank you.

Very helpful. I thought you had to store everything in sand so your advice makes things so much easier. Thanks

Fantastic tips, thanks so much!

Thanks Charles That was really really helpful. Enjoying reading your books by the way. Take care Mike

thank u sir for sharing ur garden.i really appreciated

Thank you so much for this!

Very informative like all of your videos. Keep the good work up. Thanks

Very useful - Thank You

A friend of mine loves beet leaves. I’ve never tried them. I intend to this year.

"No frills, no fuss. Yum"! Thanks for the tips Charles, I am stoked for the approaching growing season, here in US zone 6b 37 North, as I install six raised beds using your No Dig method based on your books "How to Create a New Vegetable Garden: Producing a Beautiful and a Fruitful Garden from Scratch" and the classic, "Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way".

Very good info, Charles. Thank you. I have shared you videos on "Off Grid with Doug and Stacy" homestead here in Missouri. When I did, I was surprised to find out just how many people already knew of your site. Many commented on my post saying that they love your site. Some even said that they had already started the "No Dig" method, as I have, and is great. Take care.

Lovely.

Really enjoyed this video Charles. I had no idea that carrots & beetroot would keep so long out of soil & in boxes. Its will save a lot of my time freezing later this year! Great ideas to follow on the other veggies too.

as usual very interesting very good

You can clean root veg and layer them in boxes with Clean Dry sand. It helps keep them quite well for several months.

Great video, you are my idol. Love your videos and can't wait to implement a lot of your growing techniques here in my NJ garden.

Thanks you’re helping with Toronto pandemic food storage

very handy information

Very nice. Thank you

i love your channel thank you :)

thank you for your fantastic informations. hope to use here in Portugal!

I love You Charles Dawding ARGENTINA 💪

Hopefully people will think twice now before throwing out fruit and veg from the supermarket which has gone past the sell-by date but is still perfectly good to eat.

Brilliant video plenty ways to story your harvest how have I not seen this video 👍

Lovely man

I store root crops, apples, cabbages etc. in crates filled with layers of soaking wet wood shaving and veg. I don't wash them, just shake off most of the soil, and layer them into the shavings. I am careful to make sure the veg don't touch. I think that the acidic pine shavings and physical isolation keeps any rot at bay. The wet conditions keep the veg in great shape until May. I live in the US near the Canadian border.

I stored some green tomatoes in aerated cardboard in crates and I ate the last one in December I had harvested them October 1st.

I don't know how you don't take a bite out of stuff, especially those apples 🍎🍏

Such an interesting topic and so many different variables of how to store veg. In my climate we have very hard, prolonged freezes so that leaves us to deal with indoor storage which is of course...heated for this climate. Thus, I've never been able to store much and just this year purchased a pressurized steam canner to bottle the harvest for good, safe storage. (Unfortunately hubby and I cannot create a frost-safe root cellar, or that would be a really good alternative.)

I cannot wait to be able to leave the city.

We love in an old house that still had a root cellar. I harvested some sweet potatoes last year around Sept - Oct. Placed them in the cellar, covered then with some dirt until I couldn't see them anymore. I just now finished the last of them and they were delicious. I only had 2 or 3 go bad but that was out of 50 or so with a family of 10.

Good advice on storing...Those are very huge pumpkins....You said squashes....Never seen them so big!

I just had an ad for Hot Cross Buns, and I am thinking "hurry up so I can go back to seeing all the wonderful real food Charles is storing"

I love that sweater. I literally JUST bought America's test kitchen book on methods for preserving food. I really can't wait to put all these self sustaining practices to the test but this weather's not cooperating!

I actually used the last of our Red Kuri squash in late May. Whether nutritious content decreases from early April to May I do not know, but the soup we made from it was still delicious. You could give squirrels lessons on storing food, even they probably have less food caches than you!

Wrapping apples individually in newspaper also helps them keep well.

have stored beetrootunwashed in dry sand for 3 months or so and had good results, now trying carrots in dry compost

Since i went vegan i had a lot of roting veggies, now even my greens keep for two weeks, and still taste fresh, so great!

I would put swedes, turnips, carrots, and parsnips unwashed, straight into wet sand or the soil that they came out of, in those styrofoam boxes and keep those in rat and bug proof cages made from wire and screen mesh. I just brush off my spuds, dry and store the same way and put them under the house. I store pumpkin in the laundry. Now I'm learning more from you.

This is so cool! I don't understand why the organic produce I'm buying goes bad so quickly. Organic russet potatoes, for example, go bad if I don't use them within a week and a half... onions, 2 weeks max., apples too.

I watched this video a year ago, and I remember thinking : Wow this is ... hardcore. It was beyond what I would personally go. I am watching this video now and it is totally normal, not only normal but I plan to practice it because we just never know what can happen in the crazy world we live in.

Really loving your videos! Have you done any videos that go over seasoning things, such as onions, before storing? I don't know much about it yet. Thanks for all the hard work you put into these! It is appreciated.

We found that Kerrs Pink, Sarpo Mira and Desiree Potatoes store really well and much better than the Maris Pipers

I am learning so much from your videos, a huge thank you for making this channel. Your the frist UK Channel I have found since starting homestending eight weeks ago in Surrey England. Not a fan of suppermarkets at all. Sorry to ask, im new to this channel can I ask what do you do with all this fruit and veg left over or you don't use, do you replant? Sell on? Can, dry, or freeze. If you do sell on to the public please list a link to your website. Your fruit and Vegetables look amazing. Thanks Rebecca.

I’m heartened you see you have big beetroots and kohl rabi... I have some still in the ground, they look good but they’re massive and I was wondering if they were worth even attempting to use. Now I think I will...

I like your videos, they are rearly helpfull! And I love your greenhouse may I have the plans?☺

Very good video Charles. A question about potatoes and sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes are grown widely here in NZ) - if storing in bags, won’t they rot sooner, or form sprouts? I love the look of the celeriacs and kohl rabi and didn’t know they grow to that size. I’ve never eaten a celeriac, so will try growing them this winter. Your videos are a constant source of valuable information and help. Thanks for that.

The vegetables and fruit do look pretty inside 😍

Hi Charles as always a wonderful video. Your an inspiration. I was wondering where you get your storage supplies. Also the seed modules. I have looked around many shops but they only seem to have flimsy stuff that may not last very long and I find this not very cost effective. Hope you can help. Liz 🙂

I love your videos and your no dig garden! I realize that you cannot actually store salad greens like root crops and such, but can you tell me the best way to handle salad after picking so it doesn't go bad right away?

thank u so much.

Hi Charles Hope you're keeping well. Thank you for the Informative video, I got a question,as I don't have a room like yours neither a cellar,can I store my vegetables and root veges in a outside shed(metal) I found my beets are getting soft when I left it in a box with paper on top in a dark place.what all things can we store like this method and what should go in a freezer. Thank you once again.

My last harvested sqoush is now 8 months old. I'm keeping it as an experiment to see just how long it will stay alive.

The leaves of carrots, beets, kohlrabi, turnips, celeriac, are EDIBLE, cooked or raw in a salad.

Charles, thank you for the great video, this has been an area that I have struggled with over the years, especially onions and potatoes. Are you storing your potatoes in a plastic bag? I've always been told that potatoes need to 'breathe' or they will spoil faster. Your way seems to work, though. Thanks for sharing.

HI Charles, it's great to see how well your produce is storing. Did you build a new shed to do this as well? I am thinking of setting up a shed as I do not have much space in my house for storage, especially for the quantity of produce that I am getting with the community gardens. Would you recommend any particular kind? Love Juliet

Do you put air holes in the plastic bags that you use to store potatoes? Great job..love your work. Hi from Minnesota!

I love your videos. Do you have problems with mice eating your apples in the garage? And if you didn't have the thick walled shed , where would you store your root vegetables?

What precautions do you take against rodents which would also love your fruit and vegetables!

Hi, can you please tell me what variety of garlic is this hanging on minute 9:30? It looks amazing! Thank you!

Good afternoon, Charles, I'm just mooching around on YT as it is drizzling out in August, and found this video of yours. How on earth did you get a Khol Rabi that big? What kind is it? I'm lucky to get them tennis ball size. Fabulous subject and video!

Is the nutrition affected by storage Charles.? I love all your informative vids. Thank you ✌️💕

Excellent video. I have started fermenting some vegetables for storing. Do you do any fermenting for any of your harvest?

Hello Mr. Dowding. My husband and I absolutely love your videos. This year I talked him into growing swedes here in Alaska and we watched your videos prior to growing them. The season is a bit different here but we adjusted and they did quite well so I must thank you for your instructions. We love the swedes but root cellars and out buildings are not viable for vegetable storage here and the swedes are the only vegetable I am unsure how to store. Other vegetables we have packed in wet sand or peat moss and into a bin and stored in the garage where it is cool but not frozen. If you have any suggestions on how to store the swedes so that we may eat them fresh for the next few months that would be wonderful. I can always can them but they are so delicious fresh cooked we were hoping you might have some storage ideas.

Would veg/ fruit store like that in a block built barn with a tin roof, or would it work it I stored them in crates- inside larger crates insulated between with straw. As I will be close to the sea, I am guessing it doesn't drop below zero often.

What is the lowest temps it gets in your building? We are thinking of turning a shed on our property to food storage and live in Maine USA. I'm moatly worried about freezing.

Charles, what temperature is your shed? I have a cellar which is not super cold that I'd like to store in but nervous about things spoiling. Thanks. Love your work.

What do you call ambient temp? I have a celler in my house and it would be good to know.

Hello Charles, what do you consider an ambient temperature? I've got now 17 degrees Celsius in all rooms of the basement, would that be perfect enough? (ps, can I compost aphid infected plants?) Wish me the best of luck, I'm going to use your written knowledge (there's soooo much in your books!) to transform a 0,42 acre! But it has trees here and there :) (government promised me I could use it for about 4 years, free of fees!).

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Any suggestions for a "cellar" for zone 7B (in NY, where we're currently having hot and very humid temps...)?? Don't have a basement, and not sure that I can do anything for an "in-ground" cellar... Recently pulled up my shallots and garlic, and some of the potatoes... Don't want them to go to waste!! Not home all the time either to keep the AC going while we're not home! :-/ Would love any suggestions since I've tried looking online and can't seem to come across options that would work!!

Hi Charles- I have never seen kohlrabi that large- I didn't know they could 1) get that big and 2) still be edible- what variety did you grow?

I put a box of store-bought apples that have been treated. The gas from them puts everything I have in my cold room "to sleep" Works like a charm!

Brilliant! What do you do about mice and rats? Dont they eat the vegetables kept in the outside house/garage?

I recently learned of your channel and am binge watching your videos. Can you spell out the name of the cabbage at 5:08 please?

I very much enjoy your wonderful channel! Just a question: don't you have rodents in your area? I would be worried about them if I stored vegetables like that.

Hi Charles! I have small bed of beet root that is about ready for harvesting, in terms of the size of the roots. I don't want to eat beet root every day, lol, so can I just leave it in the ground (without it getting woody) until I want more for cooking, or should I harvest it all now and store it somehow so that it doesn't lose its quality. Is the refrigerator the best place to put it, or the basement in a cool spot? What do you recommend? My weather here in the U.S. zone 6 (Michigan) is still warm with daytime highs in the 80's.