So earlier in the year I had the idea of leaving the carrots
in the boxes over the winter, covered with bags of leaves so that they wouldn’t
freeze and then harvest them whenever I needed some. The problem I ran into was that there was a
layer of air between the carrots and the leaves as well as air below the
boxes.
What happened was is that the
air would allow the dirt to freeze and made it very difficult to dig the
carrots up, because the top inch of ground was frozen. What I ended up doing was waiting for a warm
enough day and then dug everything out of the ground and stored it in dirt in
the basement. If the carrots had been
planted in the ground instead of boxes the idea would have worked.
