Pulled Veg from the plot

I am still fairly new at this veg game and have a lot to learn. I have been pulling as little at a time to eat just when I need it. However I realise if I pull, for example, carrots, beetroot I realise that if I wash it and leave it outside the fridge it goes dried up and manky. Is the best thing to leave it "mud and all" in a cold place - like the utility room shed.

Thank you

Logi06

 

You could try clamping the root veg.
You can look up some techniques online, but essentially it involves storing the veg between layers of sand and straw. the recepticle for this can be a box, or a mud mound built on the veg plot.
Stuff is meant to keep months this way, but i have never tried it myself.

 

You can leave some root veg in the ground during the winter but only if you've chosen really hardy winter varieties. There's also the problem that some veg break into pieces when you try and dig them out of frozen ground.

I've tried the traditonal methods of storing root crops in clamps and for carrots, in damp sand in a cold shed. The clamp didn't work at all for me, I think because I didn't have enough volume of veg to survive the low temperatures. The carrots in damp sand just shrivelled up and went black - total disaster.

The only short term storage that works for me is to dig the veg, clean it and then freeze it, especially the carrots.

 

spread out the planting?
most of my veg goes in a wicker basket, looks very twee (wifes idea) but the veg keeps for weeks. i spose it gets to breathe right. i brush the mud off then wash it when i use it. alot does get prepared as soon as its dug then frozen. frozen snips go straight in the oven for roasting or on the casserole without needing to defrost.