The onions at home is perfectly saved until spring. But it must be properly cropped and the vegetable will remain juicy and elastic for a long time. You do not know how to storing onions? Collect the harvest at the beginning or middle of August. Dry and proceed to trimming.
How to crop down bow - dry the harvest
The main conditions of the favorable storage of Luke is a good and long drying. Wet vegetables will be rotten. Choose for harvesting and drying hot morning without rain. Your actions are as follows:
- Swipe from the ground of the bulbs or carefully dig up. They saw that feathers at the bulbs wishes and met the garden - it's time to collect a harvest. Feathers do not break down;
- Spread the vegetables on the garden. Vegetable ripes and after pulling out of the soil. Leave onions on Earth until the evening. See not to go rain;
- Transfer bulbs in the barn or under the canopy. Spread on the floor or on racks. Leave for 2-3 days. Periodically twist the hands. Well dried vegetables determine the scales and roots. They are always dry.
Cut on the storage of the bow
- Take the bulbs. Discover, misappropriate and damaged instances to postpone and use primarily when cooking dishes. Good bulbs are cleaned from the remnants of the Earth and the upper dry scales.
- Release vegetables from feathers. Wrap dry feathers with hands. They are easily detached if very dry. Take the bulb in the left hand, and the leaves are right. Dramatically pull on yourself - the case is done.
- W. take the remaining top hollow. Cut with large scissors, sharp knife or secateur. Leave a piece of 3-5 centimeters long. If you determine the "braid" from the onions - feathers do not remove or leave the tail 10-15 centimeters long.
- Cut roots. Cut the sharp root knife for the very donation. Do not hind it with a knife.
- Spread prepared for storage onions in boxes, grids or baskets with holes in the walls for ventilation. For long storage you can hand over the place of the cutting of feather lime paste.
Cut on the storage of the bow-north
Onion-north you use next year for landing. In culinary purposes, it does not apply. The process of trimming is the following:
- Remove feathers immediately after harvest. Leave the tail 10 centimeters long from the base.
- Take the roots. This onion does not cut root. Clean them from the soil.
How to trim to store onions - is it necessary?
If you are not going to braid "Spit" from the bulbs - get rid of the tops. Fees occupy a lot of space in boxes and interfere. The uncut feathers often become the cause of the development of vegetables. Your crop will quickly disappear.
The correct cutting of the bulbs will help not get inside the fetus by bacteria and different diseases. After trimming, the location of the cut is wet, because the inside of the husk dries long. Put the fruit in the boxes in such a way that they do not hurt each other. Install the boxes under the canopy and the bulbs are finally dried. It remains to send vegetables to the selected place for the winter.