Table of Contents
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
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