Storing Carrots

Troy said that we were going to get snow so he decided that he better dig up our potatoes and carrots before the ground was frozen. When he had a wheel barrel full of carrots I told him there was no way I was going to can all of those. So he decided to dig a small root cellar in the Garden Shed.

He remembers his Grandpa Ben Hull having a root cellar when he was a little boy. He had a dog house shack type of thing on the back of his house. When Troy would come over to his house he would have Troy crawl into the cellar to get carrots and potatoes. His Grandpa would tell him to get in there "Hell fire, those spiders won't hurt you". When Troy would throw the carrots out his Grandpa would say, "Boy, oh boy, look at those carrots!"
He remembers that he had a layer of moist sand with a layer of carrots and then a burlap sack. He would repeat this till his hole was full. The burlap sack was so he could garb a bunch of carrots at once. So Troy did just that. Troy was right, our first snow came the next day! This was the second week of October.