Relearning for the future. Food storage solutions.

One of our biggest challenges in our small house with limited storage and space, has been storing fruit and vegetables.
Our teeny tiny fridge is really only there to keep open cartons and things that HAVE to stay in the fridge (ie leftovers to be used the next day) here really isn't space to store fruit and veg to feed five people for a week.
I experimented with several storage places but fund they either sped up decomposition or were so "hidden" that I often forgot I even had them till it was too late!
So seeing as I really wanted to re-embrace Various Shades of Green again, I hit the internet for food storage  solutions.
Sadly most searches came up with "in the fridge" for the storing of most vegetables, salads and fruit ... which was annoying.

HOWEVER!

Lucky me, I stumbled across No Tech Magazine and THIS amazing article about Korean artist Jihyun Ryou's  project on traditional methods of storing foods that her Grandmother used.
PLEASE go and read it as its fascinating!

Anyway, while mid term, we'll look into making some of these storage solutions, I decided to take the basic ideas behind them and try them out myself in the meantime, along with a few other tricks I found along the way.

Tomato and courgette kt at room temperature but humid bu placing a dish of cold water under this colander. 

Lettuce and brassicas stay fresh when kept in a small amount of water....  

A small X cut into the base allows water to be absorbed, tricking the plant into thinking its still growing!

Carrots seem to store better standing up, although packing vertically in sand would be a better longer term solution.