2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The harvested crop without loss of quality can be successfully preserved until spring. Our tips will help you prepare your vegetables correctly and create optimal storage conditions. Consider winter storage of the most popular and popular vegetable crops
What is needed for the successful storage of the harvested fruit?
It's not just storage that matters. Success depends on many factors:
• the correct choice of variety, • agricultural technology of cultivation, • weather, • timeliness of collection, • absence of damage or defects, • individual characteristics of each vegetable, • preparation of a cellar or other room (humidity level, disinfection), • containers and methods of fruit preparation.
Potato
The product, without which the diet of almost no one person, occupying the main part of the storage, is indispensable, is, of course, potatoes. Storage provides for the observance of the following conditions: exclusion of light, excess moisture. Temperature is also important, as heat quickly makes the root crop sluggish and prone to germination. Ideal conditions are usually created in a frost-free basement and cellar. The optimum humidity is 80-90% at + 2 … + 3 ° С.
Proper preparation of potatoes for laying is drying in a ventilated, darkened area. If the layer of the placer does not exceed 20 cm, then it is enough for drying two to three days. For dry potatoes, the final stage comes - sorting. When diseased and damaged fruits are removed, the remaining tubers are ready for storage. It is advisable to lower the temperature gradually, for example, put it in a cold shed and, when cooled to + 3 … + 5 ° C, store it in the cellar / basement.
It is not recommended to store it in bulk, the best way is boxes or containers with ventilation holes (height of containers 80-100 cm). They should not come into contact with the ground, they are installed on supports, platforms made of timber, with a gap of 15 cm from the ground. For good "breathing", spans of 20 cm are maintained from the walls. Creation of layers of mountain ash leaves or dry sawdust helps to prevent rotting.
Carrot
The key to the safety of carrots is the variety and growing conditions. When growing crops for long term use, plant mid to late ripening carrots. Preparation for storage consists of cleansing from dirt, cutting off the tops under the head and drying a couple of days in the sun.
The conditions in the storage are the same as for potatoes, and sand is added to the layers of pouring. The boxes are not made large, one should fit no more than 18 kg. Small crops can be stored in clay, which is considered the most efficient way. Carrots, moistened with a clay mash, are stacked in rows in a box covered with polyethylene, and everything is poured with clay.
Beet
Successful storage of beets is only possible with careful collection and preparation. The skin should not be damaged when cleaning from the soil and haulm. Injured specimens during excavation or broken are not subject to storage. When cutting off the tops, it is better to leave 2-centimeter "hemp". You need to dry it for two days, preferably in the wind and in the shade.
Stowage boxes should not hold more than 20 kg, the lid is made with air access or left ajar. At high humidity in the storage, it is recommended to sprinkle with sawdust, and the beets will be well preserved in the leaves of the viburnum with salt. Other methods suggest layering with a mixture of chalk and coarse sand (200 g per 10 kg). You can use dry slaked lime for pouring.
Cabbage
Only mid-, mid- and late-ripening species are suitable for winter storage. Timely collection is an important factor. Agronomists recommend harvesting heads of cabbage at a temperature of 0 … + 5 ° С. For storage, try to create -1 … + 1 ° C, the optimum humidity is 90–95%.
Damaged forks and with signs of rot, diseases should not be allowed for bookmarking. Only dry and dense specimens are selected. Storage takes place on shelves, with the root up. If the spine is removed, then the head is wrapped in paper. Some store in a hanging position, tying a stump with a nylon thread. Experts say that heads of cabbage, oiled with clay and suspended, remain unchanged longer.
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