How to cut carrots for storage

The carrots are grown everywhere: on household plots, country gardens, farms, because this vitamin root is cleaning blood, improves the operation of the digestive system, increases visual sharpness and everything else, very tasty. But sometimes vegetables laid for storage in the cellar are starting to hide, withering and affecting fungal diseases, despite the fact that in the fall were succumbed and decomposed on the disinflected container. Experienced gardeners argue that this is due to the wrong cropping of the root crops after digging. Is it really really, let's understand.

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How to collect carrots in the fall of storage?

In the middle lane, carrots are digging at the end of September early October. You can later, most importantly, have time to frost. And also, the carrot collection time directly depends on the storage location:

In a solid rustic cellar (border), carrots are laid in the last days of September. It will exceed in a cool place and does not start.
When storing roots in the scene in the boxes, it is better to wait and remove the harvest when the temperature on the street decreases to + 4ºC. In this case, carrots cool out naturally and keep vitamins all long winter.

Important: The optimal storage temperature of carrots at good ventilation is from 0º to + 3ºC, air humidity is about 80%.

If the carrot is placed in plastic bags and is stored in a shallow basement under the house, remove it in mid-October (subject to dry autumn).

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How to cut carrots for storage - a common way

Cutting the carrot, that is, the removal of the upper part of the root is carried out in order to stop the processes of rotting and drying, as well as to preserve the beneficial substances.

Carrot Pruning Memo:

I dug out carrots, do not fridge the land from it, so as not to damage the thin skin. Otherwise, the microbes that will turn vegetables into rotten mess through the wound.
Collected carrots fold in a handful, cutting off the leaves, leaving small green penets from them. Then decompose the vegetables with a thin layer on the sheets of cardboard, let it dry and cut the residues with an orange flesh with a sharp knife.
Give the rink to drag on, then let off the location of the cut sliced \u200b\u200bas a sacrous ash or crowded and dried again. Next - omit in the cellar, lay out the boxes and maintain the temperature mode.

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How to trim carrots for storage - an alternative

Many dacities advise to produce radical trimming, arguing that in this case, carrots will not be tugged until the end of May.

How to do:

Dropping the carrots, dry her hours six or eight in the tank.
After the specified time expires, cut the root of the root of the root, capturing the orange flesh by 1-2 cm. Now complies with the root of the root of the root in the place where its thickness does not exceed 3-5 mm.
Spread the carrot into one layer on a plastic film and dry (2-3 hours) until the cropped parts darken. Place the vegetables of the hour for four in a cool place (in a terrask or under a canopy), then drop into the cellar.

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How to store cropped carrots?

The best packaging for carrots - drawers, and disinfecting fillers can be different:

Sand. Fall off the wet sand on the bottom of the container with a layer of 3-5 cm. From above, decompose carrots and again sand. Alternate layers before filling the box. The sand reduces the evaporation of moisture from carrots, which contributes to a good footage.

Coniferous sawdust. Place the carrot standing, a wide tip down and pour empties with sawdust. Now putrefactive diseases, such as the phomose, white and gray rot your carrots are not scary, because in the resin spruce and pines contain phytoncides preventing the reproduction of microbes and bacteria.

Clay. Divide clay in water to the condition of thick sour cream. Fait roots, lay out on drying, then - in cardboard boxes and send to the cellar. An effective way, but spent in time, because three hours will take an hour for the manufacture of the clay boltushka.

So, the trimming of carrots before laying on storage is a mandatory procedure, the correct execution of which will save your crop and will provide the entire seven vitamins to almost the new crop.