How do you store your root veggies?

[Munch]

I have to pull all of our carrots as carrot fly are having a whale of a time!

I also have beetroot and celeriac I will like to store at some point.

I have read all different ways to do it and am wondering what it the best, easiest, cheapest way and how you may do yours?

[Aberdeenplotter]

neever grown celeriac so won't comment on that. If your carrots are clean and undamaged, they can be stored in a cool but frost free place in boxes/buckets of sand. If they are already worm damaged though, be best to cut out the damaged areas and then scrape, blanch and freeze them. Beetroot can also be stored in sand but last year, in a rush as always, I just dug a hole in the plot, put in a covering of fleece, then the beetroot, then another layer of fleeece to keep the beetroot clean then covered everything in soil with a good heap over the top and a stick to mark the "treasure Site". They kept extremely well till early spring when I lifted them

[vicky]

I had to freeze my carrot root fly infested carrots, just cut them into dice/chunks and froze without blanching. Same with onions that started to mould, some were fine and went in net bags. Garlic always seems fine to just sit in the shed till needed. Potatoes went in paper sacks (chicken food sacks) and I'm keeping an eye on them in case any start rotting.

[Currysniffa]

I freeze our carrots and I've had to freeze most of our onions too this year (mould/rot) second early spuds are in paper sacks (pigeon food sacks) there starting to chit tho and there kept in the dark

[Two_Sheds]

I make my veg into dishes (soups, curries etc) and freeze those

[binley100]

Beetroot has been grated raw and frozen in portion sizes for beetroot and mint jelly. or has been cooked and frozen in portion sizes for either beetroot and chocolate cake / roasting.
My celeriac is left in the ground same as parsnips with a mulch. of straw around.
Potatoes are in thick double paper sacks in my conservatory cos got nowhere else..
Leeks will be left in the ground
Carrots .......ermmmmm seem to have a problem growing carrots so only have a few and they'll be used
Last year I did take up some parsnips, peeled and cut them into chunks and bunged in the freezer in case they were frozen in the ground at C*******s . They roast fine from frozen or you can parboil for 3 mins roll in flour and parmesan before freezing then roast when you want them.
I reckon you could chop celeriac up and bung in the freezer too ...

[Jono]

Last year I left my carrots in the ground, covered with some fleece. They kept really well (better than previous attempts in sand) and I was still digging them up in good nick come February time.

[Alison]

I don't dig my carrots up as I find they're much better left insitu but if they are already damaged by carrot fly damage then you won't be able to store them in any way unless you freeze them really. Next year you'll be better protecting them with the likes of enviromesh so that you don't get fly damage at all although that's obviously not very helpful at the moment

[Panda]

I don't have shed storage space for crops, but have recently discovered that my loft is a great place to store stuff. The potatoes are great, they haven't started sprouting at all the in loft when they always used to in the cupboard under the stairs! I don't have particularly large crops so mine are mainly frozen or refridgerated.

[HeyWayne]

First year I've still had carrots this late in the year - just want some for Christmas dinner really - same with parsnips and swede. Though I think the swede is way too small.

[Alison]

I'm only just starting to eat my carrots, not had a swede yet (just finishing off the turnips first) and the parsnips are sadly rather rubbish this year although I did originally think that about the carrots so resowed after that hot spell in April and now have some mamouth ones, thankfully sweet and tender though so all good.

[SlugLobber]

I've chopped up beetroot, roasted it and stored it in the freezer in 175g batches. This has nothing to do with the beetroot and chocolate cake recipe requiring 175g beetroot. Honest.