Question: When should beets, carrots, and other root vegetables be lifted, and how should they be handled for Winter keeping?
Answer: Root vegetable crops should be lifted just before a heavy frost and stored at a 35° – 40° degrees Fahrenheit temperature. Maintaining a low temperature and sufficient humidity is a difficulty in the modern home.
Shelf arrangements with proper ventilation can be built to overcome these problems. These vegetables also keep well when packed in boxes filled with sand or peat moss.