When you need to clean the carrots, they know experienced amateur gardeners. Some truckers root grows well, but keep it fails, many of carrot rot in the cellar.
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Housekeeping should not rush
The main task summer resident - to save the harvest, to keep it juicy and tasty. Many root crops grow in October. They do not change their characteristics at - 5 ° C, but dug out of the ground, immediately killed by frost. Carrots are cleaned on site from 10 to 30 September.
Work carried out in dry weather. If the roots are short, they are pulled out of the ground. When digging a long plants need a shovel.
It should be remembered that the plant does not tolerate mechanical injuries. Dig carrots are placed in a container on the floor or wooden for 7 days for cooling. The room should be unheated. Many vacationers know about the timing of harvesting carrots color of the lower leaves if they become yellow - it is necessary to prepare for work.
Carrots, referring to the late varieties, is resistant to low temperatures and develops even in late September - early October.
Experience suggests some truckers leave small carrots in the ground. In the spring it is very juicy and rich in vitamins. In cold regions of Russia vegetables harvested until September 25.
It is necessary to follow some tips to give experienced gardeners:
- Do not spend a wet processing vegetables 2 days prior to harvesting.
- Do not leave the carrots on the ground, as it loses its attractive appearance, dry, wither.
- Remove the tops should be immediately after digging, closer to the ground, using a sharp knife.
- It should be carefully dig roots, add together, and not throw on each other; tops do not need to break off rough.
How to collect and store root vegetables
Before cleaning the vegetables should stop feeding for a month before the start of work. Make a big mistake gardeners, cleaning plants in wet and humid weather. Such root vegetables are stored poorly all winter, becoming soft rot.
Vegetables are not collected before the first frost, lost in the first winter months. The collected plants in clamps can damage the mouse.
Houses roots remain in the cellar. Tops spun, the plant is dried and placed in plastic bags. They are not sealed and placed in a cool place, for example in a refrigerator.
Many growers are working, coordinating it with the numbers of the lunar calendar. The full moon is not recommended to remove vegetables out of the ground, ie. K. In this case the stage is disturbed actively growing plants.
In an industrial scale tops clean machines - with the help of potato digger break fruits and collect them by hand. Save up vegetables in special storage facilities, cellars. It can be used for these purposes of the trench.
It is necessary to create optimal conditions for storage: temperature +1... + 2 ° C and humidity not exceeding 95%. Head vegetables, collected in stacks should be facing outward. Between the rows of poured wet sand. The pyramid has a height of 80-100 cm.
If a vegetable rots, there should be room ventilation or cover crop sacking.
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