Re: bit OT: winter veg storage

"0tterbot" <spl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> in the meantime, i was wondering if a person could use those lidded, 
> plastic storage bins that stack together. clearly, one would need to
drill 
> holes for air, & line them with hessian or something.

I thought of them when I read your first para.  You could also use dry
sand 
or even bran which was an old fa****oned storage method.  Inspect often.

> what about wood frames with fly mesh sides & a lid - any thoughts? (rats

> can > eat though modern mesh afaik, as it's made of plastic now)

Metal fly mesh is still around but in fewer and fewr places.  And I think
a 
rat could eat it anyway.

Sheet metal with nail holes pumched in it would work too or very fine bird

cage wire.