Collection And Storage Of Cucumbers

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

The right conditions allow fresh vegetables to be enjoyed a few weeks and months after harvest. Picky cucumbers can last not 2-3 days, but much longer. We offer you to get acquainted with the intricacies of collection and storage. About cucumber varieties with good keeping quality

How to pick cucumbers correctly

Fresh preservation of cucumbers largely depends on the collection. Cucumber beds cannot be ignored during active fruiting. The picking of cucumbers is carried out often - every other day, the allowable pause is two days. Otherwise, your cucumbers will outgrow and turn into thick-skinned, rounded yellows. It is known that this draws strength from the lash and interferes with the growth of new fruits.

The collection process is related to your goals. For canning, greens should be 8-10 cm, salting standards have a larger range of 8-18 cm. When growing salad varieties, collect large specimens from 12 cm.

Haste during collection is excluded, a thorough examination of the lashes will allow you not to miss the fruits. Defective, spotted, hook-shaped, kubariks also break off, otherwise they will deplete the bush. Everything is put into one container and then discarded.

The number of ideal greens for canning depends on the frequency of collection, since the likelihood of overgrowths decreases. Some housewives go to the “plantations” twice a day for pickling.

Collect in the morning, pluck without a stalk, hold it with your finger. Strongly pulling, twisting, pulling and turning the lashes is impossible - damage the plant. Do not leave the crop in the sun.

What cucumbers can be kept for a long time?

The short life of a cucumber is familiar to everyone, so they are trying to process them faster. Extending freshness for a week and no longer is difficult. To do this, you need to take freshly picked ones, since after 1-2 days they begin to fade and become unsuitable for storage. When buying on the market, choose the box where the whole batch does not have withered specimens, since contact with old cucumbers makes the greens not able to persist for a long time.

A thick-skinned, dark green, dry and undamaged cucumber will be well preserved. It is impossible to wash, as remove from the fruit the natural covering that protects the fruit from rotting. There are varieties that lie well. These are Sadko, Kharkovsky, Competitor, Parade, Nezhinsky, Zozulya, Nerosimy-40, Kustovoy.

Storage methods for fresh cucumbers

• In the refrigerator, just in any vessel, your harvest will lie for 3 days. In an open plastic bag, the opening of which is covered with a damp cloth - 10 days. In a bag with air holes - 5.

• In a room in a "bouquet" - a week. Cucumbers are set in jars, bowls of water on the tail. The fruit should have a stalk, it will help "drink" and not fade. The water level is not higher than a third of the fruit, it is necessary to change the water every 2 days. They will stand in the refrigerator for 3-4 weeks.

• Cucumbers in an egg white film. Lubricate the surface with protein, let dry. You can leave in the room - they will lie for a week, in the refrigerator until two.

• On paper - 2 weeks. Wrap dry cucumbers one by one in a paper towel, place in plastic and cool.

• In a box, paper bag, in a cardboard box in a cool room (+ 15… + 17) it will not fade for 3-4 days, in a cellar (+ 6… + 8) - 10.

• In a moistened gauze at + 6 … + 10 - a week.

Advice. Wherever you store cucumbers, you need to sort them out, remove faded and damaged ones. Frequency every three days.

How cucumbers should not be stored

1. Near overripe vegetables and fruits (tomatoes, apples, eggplants, bell peppers). The release of ethylene by ripe fruits leads to rapid yellowing and wilting.

2. In tightly tied polyethylene, without air access, the decay process starts.

Unconventional ways of storing cucumbers

For those wishing to experiment, we offer grandmother's methods.

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In the reservoir. A river, a pond, a lake will do. The fruits, folded in a string bag, are lowered with a sinker to the bottom and fixed. Can be stored until frost.

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In sand. You need pottery with a lid. Cucumbers are placed in it and sprinkled with dried sand. They are also closed in the basement / basement. You can bury it in the ground.

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In the well. Cucumbers are dipped in a dry bucket, linen cloth on top. The bucket should barely touch the water.

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With vinegar. A little vinegar (2 mm) is poured into the bottom of the pot / bowl. They put a stand with holes or put rods. Layered cucumbers should not touch the vinegar. In a tightly closed container, in a cool place, they will not lose their freshness for 1 month.