Not all gardeners know how to keep fresh tomatoes for a long time, so conserve them and past such processing tomatoes are deprived of many useful properties and taste. Vegetables bought at the store, may not be safe for health, and their price is too high.
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Knowledge of methods of long-term storage of the harvest will help to ensure households tasty and rich in vitamins fruits and avoid unnecessary expenditure on the purchase of products.
How to keep the freshness of tomatoes?
It may seem that the tomatoes do not differ keeping quality: plucked from the bush, they do not deteriorate 15-20 days. Use harmful to the body means to improve the safety of undesirable, therefore it is necessary to create the optimum conditions for this. An important factor in the ability of tomatoes to the long-term storage, is their variety.
If you add up the collected fruit in the package of paper, then in the refrigerator vegetable shelf they will survive without a loss of 1.5-2 weeks. To stay fresh tomatoes 2-3 months or more, they are required to hold in a room with constant humidity and temperature. Tomatoes can be sent in a basement, in which the relative humidity is 80% and the temperature - +5... + 12 ° C.
Better kept underripe fruits, although the taste and content of nutrients they are slightly inferior to mature. Tomatoes are suitable for storing milk stage. They have already become a full-sized, but not red. Tomatoes were placed in a container made of wood peduncles up.
It is not recommended to create in the box more than 3 layers, so as not to crush the lower vegetables. Each layer of paper or advisable to lay fill straw or sawdust. Experts recommend wrap paper each fruit.
Even under these conditions cottager at risk of losing the crop if it does not comply with the following rules:
- The fruit must be free of damage, stains and so. N. They tear along with the stem.
- Tomato to be collected until the night temperature is not decreased to + 8 ° C. Touched by frost, although intact, copies can not be stored.
- Vegetables removed in the daytime (dew after drying).
- 14 days before harvesting stop watering. Tomatoes harvested at 1 week after the rain.
- Tomatoes are disinfected, lightly rubbing the rind with a soft cloth or cotton wool soaked in vodka or alcohol.
- Every week, monitor the condition of the fruit, removing began to deteriorate.
6-7 days before eating the vegetables are placed in a warm bright place for ripening.
Grade storage
Cottagers better cultivate mid- and late types of tomatoes. Many chances to stay fresh for several months have Indeterminate tomato varieties that have fruiting continues until the onset of cold weather. Should abandon the storage of fleshy fruits with high sugar content.
Keeping quality tomatoes differ such as:
- Peter King. Middle-determinate variety, characterized by ovoid dense fruits weighing 70-100 g Vintage stored without losses up to 2.5 months.
- New Year. Indeterminate middle-grade tomatoes remain fresh up to 3-5 months. Yellow tomatoes weigh from 150 to 250 g
- Long Kiper. Late-determinate species. Weighing about 150 g of orange tomatoes not deteriorate until mid-winter.
- Zazimok. Late-indeterminate hybrid, red round fruit which can be stored for 2 months. After the rainy summer of their shelf life is reduced.
On the preservation of vegetables influenced by the way of their growth: cultivated in open beds of tomatoes prolezhat much longer greenhouses.
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