Storing food using sand

[gu3rr1lla]

Saw something useful on the Jamie Oliver show. I was watching the Jamie Oliver show and saw that he stored beetroot in a container full of sand with a lid on top for months. When he dug them out they were still fresh. Dont actually have a video of it but i hope you get what im talking about. That information may come in useful for those who live near a beach to store food (just vegetables, im sure).

[waylander]

Its called clamping.

My grandad used to clamp his home grown potataoes,carrots and beetroot.
I sure he used straw over the crop the covered that with soil.

It worked though his vegetables used to keep all winter. They also had flavor :)

Waylander:cool:

[tom bombadil]

Saw something useful on the Jamie Oliver show. I was watching the Jamie Oliver show and saw that he stored beetroot in a container full of sand with a lid on top for months. When he dug them out they were still fresh. Dont actually have a video of it but i hope you get what im talking about. That information may come in useful for those who live near a beach to store food (just vegetables, im sure).

Waylander is right gu3rr1lla.

You clamp with the soil that it was lifted from or not.

What Jamie did (saw the show) was to do the same but in an apple box/crate (non preserved and therefore non toxic wood). This way you can grow more on your land and lots more variety in speicies at the same time but put them into 'suspension' from rot for quite a while. Also the crates are stackable.

You can clamp in a hole in the ground in a bed of straw, with soil covering the pile. It will not 'ferment' of 'compost' if kept dry.

Problems are rats and the like.

You can store fruits in other ways. Like in a well ventilated loft, in apple crates again and if storing apples or pears, with the dividers of apple boxes too. Just lay them on the foam dividers and put another divider on top and repeat. Then cover with a cloth.

Or you dry the fruit in an air drier (you can make one)
or Jam the fruits.

As with all storage, you need to keep it safe from vermin and rot. So you might with to A) Get the food away from the heat of the house. So that B) you can do this;
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2136909/2/istockphoto_2136909_vermin_proof_barn_in_oxfordshi re_england.jpg

http://www.oakframedgarages.co.uk/Catalogue/2.aspx

The Tudors were good at this stuff as were the Victorians, but only cos they had the chance to write it all down.


Tom.

[celtic isis]

Saw something useful on the Jamie Oliver show. I was watching the Jamie Oliver show and saw that he stored beetroot in a container full of sand with a lid on top for months. When he dug them out they were still fresh. Dont actually have a video of it but i hope you get what im talking about. That information may come in useful for those who live near a beach to store food (just vegetables, im sure).

that's brilliant!! thanx for telling us about it gu3rr1lla. Jamie Oliver comes in useful for something lol

[white horse]

Saw something useful on the Jamie Oliver show. I was watching the Jamie Oliver show and saw that he stored beetroot in a container full of sand with a lid on top for months. When he dug them out they were still fresh. Dont actually have a video of it but i hope you get what im talking about. That information may come in useful for those who live near a beach to store food (just vegetables, im sure).

That's right, you can also use peat, or a mixture of both. It is a very well known gardening technique to store food crops, before the supermarket generation forgot were food came from that is!