It ended in the summer. Owners of country and personal plots are starting to harvest. To qualitatively save it until next year, it is necessary to put in order your cellar. Bridging the purity and need to do repair in dry warm weather in late summer or early fall, a week before the laying of vegetables for the winter. The room should have time to dry out, warm up, get rid of all kinds of fungi.
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It is necessary to remove all the contents of the cellar: the remaining products, wooden shelves and boxes, all kinds of boxes. It is advisable to put all of this on-ventilated and sunny place, that they are well dried. Basement left open for good ventilation. Check the status of humidity, moisture, the presence of mold. To evaluate the work of the ventilation system.
To track the performance of ventilation, it is necessary to ignite the paper in the vent, or to bring a candle to her. Everything else is checked visually.
If the ventilation system in the cellar is installed correctly (in the corner of the north side of the hood is installed at a distance of 10-15 cm below ceiling in the southern corner, on the contrary, the inflow pipe, also lowered by 10-15 cm above the floor), to worry about the safety of vegetables is not worth.
How to eliminate the dampness
The condensate and the excess moisture is formed due to the poor performance of the ventilation system, infiltration of groundwater through the wall and the floor or insulation. It is necessary to pay attention to the dimensions of the room, matching the size of these amounts of stored food in it, it also affects the humidity. Pay attention to the quality of drying vegetables before storage.
Eliminate seepage of ground water and excess moisture helps additional waterproofing. The most simple use even our village craftsmen, it consists of a layer of compacted clay fatty backfilled with dry coarse sand on top and filled with concrete or cement. When a low altitude it is necessary to deepen the cellar to the thickness of the waterproofing layer. Sheathe the walls with roofing material, glued to the asphalt and covered them from above.
When a large temperature difference paneling cellar polycarbonate sheets SEC reliably protect it from the warm air. Remove condensate and humidity will help ordinary old pail filled with glowing wood coals. The heat must be maintained until the complete elimination of moisture, throwing up in a bucket of little pieces of old rotted wood.
To accelerate the air circulation and ventilation faster cellar can use conventional candle installed under the exhaust pipe. The spark plug should be installed on the floor in a tin box, and a chimney at the time extended with foil or a metal plate, making the sleeve of them over a candle.
After drying on hot coals to put several tablets of dry alcohol having antiseptic properties.
If someone is engaged in manufacturing of therapeutic oils can be used for the fumigation of premises waste resins frankincense and myrrh, which is placed on the embers. Then certainly no mold and mildew are not terrible.
While cellar is dried, it is necessary to clean wooden shelves and drawers, dried on the street. If they are struck by a fungus, it is necessary to clean them, process completely antiseptic impregnated and whiten the composition of lime and copper sulfate.
Protection against moisture and mildew
Eliminating dampness in the cellar, it is necessary once again to verify and, if necessary, once dried candle.
In any rustic cellar worth a bucket of quicklime. It absorbs excess moisture and disinfect the premises. You can use the white moss, has the same qualities. And yet, if there is condensation, you need to reliably isolate the exhaust vents from the heat.
Proper storage of vegetables
The temperature should be below + 5 ° C, it is recommended to keep humidity 70-80% to not dry vegetables. To preserve the clean and fresh air in the room is necessary to support the weak ventilation. When the vegetables are already in the cellar, it is important to immediately establish a good atmosphere in there. Once the outside air temperature becomes lower than in the cellar, it is necessary to open the cover and leave it open to the temperature there fell to + 3 ° C... + 4 ° C. Give the cold and dry air to ventilate and dry cellar. If the winter is very cold, it is possible to leave only one open hood, top to insulate it from the street, so as not to wet condensate freezes in it.
Correctly prepared cellar for the winter - a pledge of high-quality storage vegetables that will please you all through the winter and spring before the season of spring greens and early vegetables.
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