To: Ellendra
Just DON’T put apples in your root cellar!
173 posted on
04/02/2010 7:07:32 PM PDT by
JDW11235
(I think I got it now!)
To: JDW11235
In fact apples give off an ethylene compound that will keep taters from sprouting...
176 posted on
04/02/2010 7:13:59 PM PDT by
djf
To: JDW11235
Just DON’T put apples in your root cellar!
If the ventilation is done properly, and the different foods are packed well, apples can be stored in a root cellar without affecting the other foods. But the gas they emit does have to be kept in mind when designing and using it.
218 posted on
04/02/2010 8:24:04 PM PDT by
Ellendra
(Can't starve us out, and you can't make us run. . . -Hank Jr.)
To: JDW11235
One bad apple don’t spoil the whole bunch, girl!
251 posted on
04/03/2010 3:05:14 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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