In the watermelon season, everyone is trying to nourish them to the dump, in order to stock up with vitamins and do not forget the amazing taste of this huge berry to the new crop. But if you like to experiment, you can try to save watermelon until the winter. Many it turns out and then they surprise guests, feeding watermelon even on the New Year's table.
Where to get watermelons for winter storage
A bought in the store or on the market watermelon for long-term storage is categorically not suitable. Even the slightest scratch on the peel will contribute to the fact that there are harmful microorganisms through it inside the berries, from which watermelon or will become soft, or wanders, or incurs. In the conditions of mass cultivation, collecting and transporting, no watermelon remains completely. For storage, only those watermelons are suitable that you personally and very neatly rushed from the bed or you brought them from the village familiar dacities. When collecting watermelons, it is necessary to use cotton gloves, and put them in the trunk of the machine on a very large layer of soft hay, so that watermelons lay as it were in separate nests. A thick blanket is suitable, but then torn watermelons must be shifted with old pillows so that they do not touch each other.
What watermelons are suitable for storage before the new year
For winter storage, you need to choose watermelons of medium weight (3-4 kg) and with very shiny peel. It is not worth removing the watermelon to remove a dry tail - it serves as a kind of cork, through which microbes will not fall inside. Watermelons of late maturation are best suited for storage. These are the varieties:
- Astrakhan.
- Climson Glory.
- Charleston Gray.
- Chill.
- Scorch.
- Stokes.
The latter can even be laid out completely matured - during the storage process, this variety rushes and becomes very tasty.
Watermelon Storage Conditions before the New Year
The optimal storage location is considered a basement or cellar with:
- ambient temperature - from +1 to +3 degrees.
- air humidity - 80-85%
In other rooms, such as cold storage rooms, garages, Sarayev, such conditions achieve very difficult. In them, watermelons can lie, without losing their taste no more than 1-1.5 months.
Storage of watermelons in basements before the new year
In the basement with the right temperature and humidity of watermelons can be stored in several ways:
- On wide shelves, covered with a thick layer of hay, straw or shallow shavings. In order for the peel, micro-sumps from dried herbs, it is desirable to put worn over the sheets on top of it.
- Suspended in grids. With this storage method, each individual watermelon is placed in a separate grid - onions or potatoes are sold in such autumn. Grids are suspended to hooks, driven into the ceiling.
For more reliable storage of watermelons, it is possible to pre-cover with warm wax or paraffin (a layer of 0.5-1 cm) and after its solidification, we remove the berries on the shelves or in the grid.
Storage of watermelons in the apartment before the new year
Urban residents can also try to keep watermelon to the new year. For this, a tasty berry is torn in the village of grandmother, it is necessary to wrap in several layers of soft white paper (not a newspaper) and put watermelon on the lower shelf of the refrigerator.
When storing watermelons before the new year, the berries between themselves should not come into contact at all. Shelves for watermelons should be very accomplished, and the hooks for grids are driven at a considerable distance from each other. In winter, watermelons need to be inspected at least once a week and at the slightest signs of damage, remove bad from the basement.
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