Save carrots fresh throughout the winter as difficult as getting a good harvest. Today I want to tell some of his secrets that help me keep the roots up to the April. I really hope that the article will be useful to you.
1. collecting harvest time
A very important time to gather the harvest. After all, if the delay and carrots will stay in the ground longer than the due date, it will absorb a lot of water in the future will begin to deteriorate. Our task is to pull root ripe, but not overripe.
To determine that the time has come to pull carrots can be on the lower leaves of foliage. If they began to turn yellow and dry up, then it was time to harvest.
A week earlier, when the leaves are just beginning to acquire a yellow tinge, I shed a bed of water. This allows you to become a juicy carrot. However, doing this is only in the event that previously did not rain and the soil is dry enough.
2. Harvesting
It would seem that complicated in the harvest of carrots. I pulled the tops and pulled root. However, it is quite wrong approach. You can not pull a carrot out of the ground for the tops. This can damage the root and it will not be used for long-term storage.
It is best to stick a small shovel, pick up the ground and remove the carrots hands. Thus, the root is intact, which guarantees a long storage.
Never throw a carrot during collection and even more so, do not knock the fruits of each other to shake off the ground. Even subtle damage become rotten areas in the future.
3. The selection of applicants for storage
After the crop is harvested, you need to gently cleanse the earth with a dry cloth or hands. Wash carrots is not necessary prior to storage.
Peeled root vegetables laid out on a small drying in the shade. After drying, you must carefully clean the remaining dirt and arrange the carrots for the selection of applicants for storage.
You must choose only healthy tubers normal shape and size. Overgrown for a long time will not be stored. Make sure that there are no traces of carrot cuts and strikes, as well as dark spots.
4. Verification period
Once we have selected the fruit for storage, they need to check the time. Keep in mind that there are flaws that can not be determined by appearance.
To make all the hidden damage had an effect, you must send a carrot at 1.5-2 weeks in the cellar for a preliminary storage.
After 2 weeks you need to check out all the roots and to select those that have remained unchanged. We will send them to long-term storage.
For the verification period is sufficient to expand the carrots in a row on the floor and shelves. You do not need a long time to sort it in boxes and lay on the layers.
5. Storage conditions
The main part of the work we have done, and now it remains only to create conditions for long-term storage. The optimum temperature at which the carrots may be stored through the winter varies from 0.5 to 2 degrees above zero. The relative humidity should be at a level of 95%.
When storing the roots do not touch each other. This is done so that if one of the fetuses will be infected, and the other will remain unscathed. For this purpose, the space between the root vegetables can be filled with sand or sawdust.
Compliance with these simple secrets will keep the carrots until spring. This means that the forces spent the summer will not be wasted.
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