What foodstuff do you keep in your shed?

sb44

We are getting a replacement shed this week, 10' x 8' so quite big for a few gardening tools and a bike.

I was hoping to keep a bit of food in there. The windows and glazed door will be west facing so will get the sun from mid afternoon.

Will it get too warm for storing food?

I know that I shouldn't store packets unless they are in jars, tins. etc.

Just realized I have posted this in the wrong forum, if someone could kindly move it for me please, ta.

Middy

When I lived with my ex, we had a brick outhouse as part of the flat. We stored:
. pasta
. rice
. jars of various things
. tins of various things
. bottles of fizzy drink and squash
. boxes of cereal

The latter were only in there for about a fortnight max.

I suggest that you store the food in large crates with lids as it keeps the packaging dry - just in case there is a wet period and easier to get to.

meritaten

This took me back! to childhood and my dad was a great gardener.
The shed stored onions (mums old laddered stockings stored them, put in an onion, knot it, put in another, knot it and so on..........same with garlic bulbs. they were just hung from nails hammered into the shed walls.
apples were stored in old wooden tomato boxes begged from the corner shop, dad used his wood shavings and sawdust to store them in.
potatoes were in old sacks, but, they are hard to come by these days so I would suggest using thick paper carrier bags. the main thing is to protect them from light, frost and damp.
green tomatoes were picked before the first frost - not stored in shed but in boxes under mum and dads bed! then taken out to ripen on the windowsill when needed. er - their bedroom didnt have central heating then! but the shed was too cold - they need cool not cold and no heat either!
any cucumbers left in the green house were turned into relish or chutneys - so my guess is they dont keep well - I may be wrong though!
good luck with your shed storage!

thriftwizard

I keep rice, flour & oats out in our garage, which isn't quite the same, but my point is that I keep them in an old chest freezer, which isn't plugged in; it's vermin-free and insulated, so keeps them at a reasonably-even temperature. There are also tins of baked beans & tomatos, vinegar, oil & wine stored out there, and apples in apple trays most years, but we won't have enough to store any this year, despite having 4 trees; it's a big space though & keeps fairly cool, but is subject to other members of the family moving stuff around to accommodate their own bits & pieces. There's a separate shed that I eventually plan to use partly for food storage, which stays cool as it's under trees & behind a fence so never gets direct sun, but it's currently full of stock for my market stall. The idea is to keep 90% of my tins & preserves out there; sadly, the house lost its larder when our predecessor "developed" it.

Might be worth keeping a thermometer out there & tracking the temperature for a while?

Ken68

Thanks sb....I have an old fashioned pantry, yet like the idea of storing tins and jars to quite a spacious bike shed, formerly for a car.
Then just move some back to the pantry now and again.
Will start with all these mushy peas and rice pudding.

Take_it_like_a_man,_sonny

Pots of Toms, packet of mints and copious amounts of WOBBLEADE

And the lock is on the inside, with chair. Cheers!!

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No with wifi, I can even do this as well!!!