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Thanks for the welcome folks!

Do you need to be able to walk on it? No, the plan is just for a trap-door. There's no way I'm hand excavating deep enough for a walk-in cellar! I don't think the soil's even deep enough anyway... I've seen lots of plans for making root cellars out of old frdiges or chest freezers - they're already...

awright dunc! It's Fiona (recently moved to Rosyth, if that helps!) The internet is a small world!!!! Hey Fi! Sorry I missed your housewarming... I'll be trying to get up your way at some point in the next few weeks, since it's been ages since I've seen either you and Richard or Chris and Seonaid.....

You don't need to buy wine bottles, unless you want a whole set of really spiffy matching ones. Just clean and sterilise used wine bottles (even if you don't have any, I'm sure you can find someone who does) rather than taking them to the bottle bank. Half the reason I started making wine was that I...

Right well... My allotment shed is rapidly approaching the end of its current incarnation - it's certainly well-ventilated, but unfortunately it's also composting itself, not to mention listing rather dramatically... I'm hatching plans for a replacement, and I want to put a small cellar in under it,...

Hi everybody! Been reading occasionally for a while, finally joined up because I'm looking for some advice about root cellar construction (specific post coming soon). I'm an allotmenteer in Edinburgh (Saughton Mains if there are any other Edinburgh allotment types reading), a keen craft (not home :i...