Garden cellars, also known as pit-houses, were once a permanent feature of the home landscape. However, advances in technology, most notably unlimited access to electricity and increasingly modern refrigerators, caused their popularity to decline significantly for an extended period of time. In some homes, separate pantries appeared, while gazebos began to reign supreme in gardens. For several years, we have been watching cellars coming back in style, which is related, among other things, to greater concern for health, growing vegetables and fruits, and the resulting need for their proper storage.

A properly constructed garden cellar can keep the temperature below 10 degrees Celsius at all times throughout the year! Most often, the temperature in such constructions is maintained in the range of 6 to 9 degrees, which creates ideal conditions for storing food – including preserves, spirits, but also unprocessed crops. Thus, in many pit-houses, we can find ready-to-eat vegetables, fruits or plant bulbs protected against winter.

A cellar is a great place for more than just food storage. They are perfect as storage rooms for garden tools or bicycles, skates, skis and the like, used only throughout the season. Thus, we protect our possessions from the adverse effects of snow, rain or long exposure to sunshine. On hot days, a cool cellar is also the perfect place for a short or slightly longer rest.