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Roots in your cellar

Basement Root Cellar

What is it?

A simple to build basement root cellar!

Not exactly something beautiful to look at and construction isn’t done yet either – but we started on this simple project back in late January and never got around to posting information about it.  Basically it’s a small 6′x6′x6′ cube built of 2×4′s and 1″ [...]

Growing space

Starting with a pile of some old 2×4′s that I cut down and some old barn siding… I knew there was something good to be made here.  A quick trip to Home Depot secured a 12′ section of wire closet shelving cut into 4′ section…  and a few other supplies (to be shown later).

But with [...]

The water doth flow

After finishing the connections and turning on the water for a test… the gurgling and bubbling of the air could be heard in the lines as the water surged forward.  As I stood in the trench with the soil piles towering over my head I had this feeling of impending doom…

The wind was whipping ahead [...]

The trench doth grow

Yesterday was quite the challenge – I needed to get the holes that were started NEXT to the barn dug out, trenched, connected to other trenches, pipe connected, hydrants in, tested and filled in – ALL before the expected rains hit.  Not a small task under the best of conditions.  So – to ensure things would [...]