Secrets of harvesting and storage pumpkin experienced gardeners know. Vegetables is of great benefit. Many vacationers appreciate this culture.
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Timing of harvest pumpkins
In early autumn gardeners carefully refer to different types of vegetable, including gymnosperms, which not only feed, but also treated. Fruits dark orange-yellow. The rind is thin, the pulp is dark orange, fragrant. The taste vegetable gentle, sweet.
Gardener closely watching the weather forecast. The main rule is that before the sharp decline to remove the entire crop temperature. Slightly podmerzshie fruits retain vitamins and minerals, but are not subject to long-term storage.
Fruits are harvested in September, only in this case they retain all their nutritional qualities up to the summer months. Small and poorly ripened pumpkin suitable for animal feed. After use is much larger seeds, which have a therapeutic effect.
If, during the harvesting of fruits on the side were deep scratches, they must seal the plaster. How long they are not stored, but ripen and are used as food.
Experienced cottager can not name the exact date of the collection of culture. At the pumpkin should happen hardening stalk, change the color and pattern of the cortex (from muscat type).
Some pumpkin lovers are guided by national signs. The fruit is cut simultaneously with the stem, working very carefully. The maturity of the culture, growing in the Urals, is determined by the numb stalk and skin color should be orange or yellow.
Cleaning is carried out at the temperature in the middle of September. If the pumpkin slightly podmerzli, it becomes not so sweet. Fruits ripen 1-2 weeks in a basement. Muscat varieties stored for six months, but a reduction in the amount of sugar in the pulp.
Storage and use of
Before the beginning of the savings culture needs to be dry. At a temperature of + 14˚S fruit placed on a balcony. In the case of cooling to + 3... +8 ° C it is transferred to the cellar. It is necessary to ensure the humidity in the room at around 70%.
Pumpkin stored until the beginning of summer, without losing its nutritional properties. Patients do not maintain copies of the deadline and become unfit for consumption.
Vacationers are grown for prolonged storage special grades:
- Mozolevskaya 49;
- Premiere;
- Gribovskaya;
- Smile;
- Almond.
Kultyry contain a lot of starch, sugar dissolves quickly and becomes very sweet pumpkin.
It can be equipped in the basement a few racks. They put a little straw, put the large specimens to stem facing up. The room must be constantly ventilate and fruit spread in such a way that they do not touch each other.
Dachniki beforehand acquired crates, their bottom cover dry moss. Sometimes pumpkin placed in a trench filled with dry straw. In the cold days it covered with a layer of soil, leaving a small hole for the supply of oxygen.
When severe frosts hoods must be completely closed. A small number of heads arranged in a cupboard or closet. The room temperature does not affect the process of storing vegetables. Keep the head in the dark, otherwise the seed will increase and become bitter gourd.
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