tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28216161.post194383315858547961..comments2023-12-07T05:50:30.962-05:00Comments on Skippy's Vegetable Garden: storage of vegetable - and other items, like honey, fruits, etckathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10947233901412406068noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28216161.post-5742254531332740142016-12-13T11:20:37.939-05:002016-12-13T11:20:37.939-05:00BTW, Thanks for the apple storage advice. I wish I...BTW, Thanks for the apple storage advice. I wish I had an attic. We have no attic or basement :-( Maybe there will be a place in my husband's workshop that is about 40F in the winter, when he's not working in it. Maybe and out of the way spot on an upper shelf.<br /><br />I wrote in the post that I'll store apples and pears in a refrigerator. I'm hoping for another good pear year, and a few apple on my young trees. I'm was thinking I'd buy a deli fridge, but I have time to figure out if there are other options.<br /><br />I also need to figure out peach and cherry storage someday. Hopefully my baby trees with produce within a few years. My cherries, Montmorency pie cherries, I was planning to can and store as pie filling. kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10947233901412406068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28216161.post-69350852367342711612016-12-13T11:10:22.949-05:002016-12-13T11:10:22.949-05:00Yes, I prefer the honey crystallized too. The othe...Yes, I prefer the honey crystallized too. The other sign crystallizing shows is that there are pollen grains in the honey, which people really like to have, myself included.<br /><br />I'm still storing my honey in my garage pantry for space. It's all crystallized. Before I sell bottles, I gently warm them, as you said, to return to liquid. It seems it should be liquid when I sell or give it away.<br /><br />I have ordered for 30 jars from various people that they want to give as gifts.kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10947233901412406068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28216161.post-69314475245904478262016-12-12T18:07:07.834-05:002016-12-12T18:07:07.834-05:00My MIL keeps bees and sells honey and crystallized...My MIL keeps bees and sells honey and crystallized honey is actually considered a sign of quality because it means the honey is raw/was cold processed. There are 2 things you can do to get around it. Gently heat in a water bath (although she has a specific device with a heated tube that can be set to a low temperature while the honey drips through a mesh bag) or create ultrafine crystals by seeding with creamy honey and stirring. Creamy honey is great for spreading on toast with little mess and dissolves well in tea. It doesn´t work well as well for baking/mixing. She doesn´t have space to store honey indoors!<br /> expatvishnuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752321594416781072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28216161.post-78518776873621250822016-11-25T18:35:18.142-05:002016-11-25T18:35:18.142-05:00We store all of our root vegetables in our unheate...We store all of our root vegetables in our unheated, attached garage. They are layered in damp sand in large food coolers...on the outside wall....carrots, turnips, rutabagas, and celeriac. They last well into the first warm days of spring. We tuck the winter squash into bookshelves around the house, they last a really long time...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28216161.post-90137306565504406062016-11-23T13:34:32.001-05:002016-11-23T13:34:32.001-05:00I'll be interested to hear your storage notes ...I'll be interested to hear your storage notes after this season. These seem like good solutions. I haven't had a pantry or root cellar for the past few years, and although I've tried to keep things at ideal temperatures I haven't been able to through the whole winter...so I've been freezing and processing everything. Next year will be a lot more organized.adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15819603363667094102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28216161.post-20987565413852124642016-11-23T13:14:28.033-05:002016-11-23T13:14:28.033-05:00Thank you for posting this list! I got similar ad...Thank you for posting this list! I got similar advice from a farmer once, and some of it was definitely counter intuitive to me [I was told to put winter squash somewhere inside "like on a bookshelf"!] but it worked. <br /><br />Here is my own tip: last year, I got an immense quantity of foraged apples - so huge that I needed to improvise mass storage. I ended up putting them in an unheated attic which stays about 40ish degrees in the winter. I carefully vetted them, storing only the perfect ones, and laid them out in shallow cardboard boxes [in one layer] barely touching each other. They lasted well into late spring!! And the attic smelled great.<br /><br />This year my fig trees are there: out of the containers, and in plastic bags, and in a dark corner. I have yet to see how this will work, so I cannot yet recommend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28216161.post-16399815999015579752016-11-23T05:13:16.669-05:002016-11-23T05:13:16.669-05:00I think if you put a jar of honey in a pan of warm...I think if you put a jar of honey in a pan of warm water it will go back to a liquid formAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com