Carrots Harvested

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.