Root Cellaring: The Simple No-Processing Way to Store Fruits and Vegetables

By Nancy Bubel and Mike Bubel

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878572775
• ISBN13: 9780878572779
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Rodale Pr
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Absolutely fantastic

Really excellent primer on designing, building, and filling a root cellar. Great information that you can't find in such a concentrated form anywhere else.

Great book

Must know stuff everyone should know and pass on

Encyclopedia of no-energy food preservation

This book is a vast resource of information about root cellars, how to build them, and how to use them. The Bubels contend that even city apartments dwellers can arrange some sort of cold food storage area with a little imagination and a few suggestions from those who have done it before. The book has 6 parts: choosing good storage vegetable varieties, harvesting for keeping quality, storing crops in the root cellar, root cellar ideas for those who don't currently have a root cellar, root cellaring experiences, and recipes. At the end of the book is a bibliography for further reading, a list of plant sources, and an index. The book is amply illustrated with diagrams and black-and-white photographs. I didn't expect to find much in this book that I haven't read elsewhere. Since my house didn't come with a root cellar, I wasn't very optimistic about finding anything in the book that I could use. Fortunately, I was way off-base in these assumptions. I was amazed at the variety and detail of information that the Bubels provide. The sections on choosing seed varieties and determining when to harvest are extremely useful, even if you're only going to put your harvest in the refrigerator. They also explain the different types of storage conditions required for different crops- -some like it cool and moist, and others warmer and dry. But what gave me real hope was all the ideas about un-root cellars that people have constructed and made good use of for storing vegetables. Their examples include everything from insolated window baskets for apartment dwellers to buried package trucks. One idea that might work well for my situation at least for the time being is a buried refrigerator. Down the line, if I have extra time on my hands, I could trade up for a real dug root cellar, following the plans in the book. If you're a gardener, you'll find something of use for sure in this book.

My Oh My!

A must buy for country-wise, self sufficient individuals. I initially borrowed it from the library, but it's worth the expense. Stretch your garden further than ever with this in-depth gem of a book.

This book gives the complete root cellaring picture.

We're fortunate to have bought a property with a well designed root cellar already in place. Until I read this book, I had no idea how a root cellar 'worked'. This book suggests what foods are best for root cellaring, how long to expect to store them, and what temperatures should be maintained. Had I not read this book I would have wasted time and enery, and lost the nutrients in some foods by canning them rather than root cellaring them. A city dweller friend of mine borrowed my book and has decided to buy it. There are variety of good root cellar plans complete with illustrations and drawings for nearly any situation.