Storage Root. If your storage room is dry check the sand periodically. Root cellar type storage can be as elaborate as a separate subterranean structure or as simple as a collection of rubber totes filled with peat moss according to liley.
Pack beets carrots turnips radishes and rutabagas in damp sand peat moss or sawdust so they don t touch each other. Apples release ethylene gas that would speed the ripening and process and can cause your root vegetables to rot. Store carrots and parsnips as they grow vertically in the sand ensuring they do not touch each other.
Cassava storage root csr is an indeterminate vegetative storage organ that results from the swelling of primary root crown root with the central cylinder as the edible part.
Don t store apples and root vegetables together. Pick root vegetables before the temperature drops below 25 f 4 c brush off loose soil don t wash them clip tops to 1 inch and leave roots intact. A storage account may have one root container. This can be used in adverse conditions when water and food supply is reduced and nutrients can be mobilized.