A Seed Saver's Garden

[heirloomgal]

I don’t know how cold your basement is but I keep carrots quite successfully in an outhouse in slightly damp sand. I guess an outhouse for you might be colder than your fridge, but I wonder whether a box of sand in your basement could be OK?

It's definitely something I'm thinking of considering @Decoy1. It is definitely coolest directly on the cement floor, and the basement in general is certainly cooler than upstairs. If I stored them in a single layer in sand right on the floor, in something long and shallow I just might succeed. I could try a couple places and hope for the best.

I would even consider getting a little mini fridge and keep it on the warmest setting, if I thought it'd work. My sunroom goes to -35C for sure, and the carrots that I kept in there this winter I checked today and they are toast. Mush with skin. And I had one lot stored in lots of peat and one in garden soil, both gone. I honestly wonder how pioneers kept their carrots in root cellars in this climate.