Brussels Sprouts
|Planted in soil in cellar.
| |Must not be too mature.
| | |According to family tastes.
| | | |Keep watered and will mature.
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Ground Cherries or Husk Tomatoes
|May be stored for some weeks in the husk in their layers in a
|dry place free from frost.
|
Kohl-rabi, Winter Radishes, Rutabagas
|Best stored in sand in cellars, cares or pits.
| |Must be kept cold to prevent evaporation.
| | |According to the family tastes.
| | | |Kohl-rabi must be tender when stored.
| | | |
Horse-radish
|May be kept in the ground where grown all winter. Must be
|kept frozen as thawing injures it.
|
Pumpkins
|Best kept on shelves in a very dry place. Can be kept on
|shelves in furnace room.
| |Must be ripened and cured and free from bruises.
| | |5 ordinary sized pumpkins.
| | | |Need not be kept especially cold.
| | | |
Squashes
|Susceptible to cold and moisture, so store in a dry place
|where temperature will be between 50 and 60 degrees.
| |Care must be taken that stem is not broken.
| | |10 ordinary sized hubbard squashes.
| | | |Whenever squashes or pumpkins in storage show
| | | |signs of decay, the sound portion should be
| | | |immediately canned.
| | | |
Tomatoes
|Cool cellar or cave; can be wrapped in any absorbent paper
|preferably without printing upon it, and laid upon shelves to
|ripen. The paper absorbs the moisture given off by the
|tomatoes and causes them to ripen uniformly. If cellar is dry
|or well ventilated, tomatoes can be kept a month or six weeks
|in this manner.
| |May be kept until Christmas if vines with the green
| |tomatoes hanging on them are pulled and hung in the
| |cellar. Pull the vines before they are frosted.
| | |All that you can put away.
| | | |Most of the tomatoes that are put into storage
| | | |will ripen and be most acceptable as soon as
| | | |they color up. If these tomatoes, when cooked,
| | | |are found to be very acid, the acidity may be
| | | |overcome by using baking soda.
| | | |
Parsley
|Transplant into flower pots late in the fall.
| |Keep in windows where they wil