Without carrot, it is impossible to cook many meat and vegetable dishes. Well, if this vegetable grows in the country and the harvest pleased you. You do not know how to keep in winter in the cellar of carrots so that she does not lose taste and benefit the body? Carrot - vegetable capricious. To preserve it, the whole and unharmed should have good knowledge in the field of gardening.
How to store in the cellar in winter carrots - Preparation of the room
If storage conditions are inappropriate - it will germinate or rotate. Properly prepare the cellar to storing the crop for the winter:
- cleaning in the cellar. Remove the remains of last year's crop and old sand;
- disinfection of the room. Start disinfection a month before the crop storage. Buy 1 kg of hawked lime and 100 g of copper sulfate in the shopping store. Divide the vigor into the water and in another bucket divor the lime. Thinking a thin jet pouring lime into a vigor, and stir up all the time. You got the Bordeaux mixture. Use a brush to work. Lubricate all the walls with a ceiling in the cellar;
- whitewash. After a couple of weeks after disinfection, turn the cellar of lime. You can add vitrios to it;
- carry the room. After the above procedures, they ventive well and dried the cellar.
The perfect temperature for the storage of carrots is from 0 to 3 degrees of heat. Moisture should not exceed 97%. After harvesting, dry the vegetables in the sun. Before placing in the cellar, hold the carrot in the barn at a temperature of from 12 to 15 degrees of heat at least two weeks. Remove with vegetables from the tops, tipped instances for long-term storage are not suitable. Wooden or plastic boxes are suitable for storage of roots.
How to keep in winter in the cellar carrot in sandboxes
Sand will support temperature and will not give vegetables to get fungus. For storage, humidified clay sand is suitable, but not river. Dilute the sand bucket of a liter of water. Further your actions are as follows:
- lay out the layer of moist sand on the bottom of the box;
- on the sand put the carrot layer;
- fall on the vegetables the next layer of sand with a thickness of about 10 mm.
Alternate sand with carrot until the drawer is full. Try to the carrots not too touch each other. You can use dry sand and store vegetables in a bucket. At the bottom of the bucket pour dry sand and alternate with carrots before filling the packaging. The shelf life in such ways is from 6 to 8 months.
How to keep in winter in the cellar of carrots - moss and coniferous sawdust
Carrot laying technology in bins with moss or coniferous sawdresses is the same as in the above storage method. Sawdles alternately decline with vegetables. With the same success you can use onion husks. For storage with moss, make vegetables properly;
- after harvesting, the carrots do not wash;
- dry it in the sun;
- after drying, you put the carrot for a day in a cool place;
- enjoy the crop with moss on the boxes of layers.
How to store in the winter in the cellar of carrots - other ways
There are some more ways to successfully keep in winter carrot:
- in polyethylene bags. Find polyethylene bags with a capacity of up to 30 kg. From the bottom in the bag, make a few holes so that condensate is not formed. Pull the roots in bags and store in the cellar in the open form. If evaporation starts in the packages - scat out a little lime near them, it will absorb excessive moisture and will not give vegetables;
- in the clay "case". Make out of water and clay a solution resembling sour cream. Fracture every carrot and decompose to dry out. After the complete drying of the "Case" is placing the vegetables in open boxes or baskets;
- in paper. You can store vegetables for a long time using old newspapers and any paper. But if the cellar is very humid - the method is not suitable. Burn the carrot and decompose in the boxes so that they do not come into contact. Shoot the root paper with paper.
Before placing in the cellar, do not wash the carrots and do not wipe in a damp cloth, it rotates. Sweep in the sun, clean from the ground and choose any of the above method for long winter storage.
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