Constructing a root cellar to store produce from the garden.

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8. We had a root cellar in the house

that my family had when I was a child. It was an older home that my parents had bought from a family friend of my grandparents. The basement had 4 sections: two large, open areas, and two small rooms with doors. One of the small rooms had no windows and was the root cellar where we stored potatoes, onions, and various home canned fruits and vegetables from our yard.

My father grew up on a farm, but moved into the city when he married my mother. He used half of our back yard as a garden and grew a little of everything, including 4 rows of cornstalks - in the middle of the city. There was an old peach tree, too, that produced a LOT of fruit.

As my mother said, you could take the boy off the farm, but not the farm out of the boy. We had corn, peas, beans, lettuce, cabbage, beets, potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers, onions, rhubarb, celery and radishes.