Tasty, ripe, juicy watermelon, wreath of summer fruit and berry abundance! As there would be great a tax on a table on New Year's Eve this sweet piece of hot summer.
It is required to you
- - sand;
- - moss;
- - natural fabric or paper;
- - clay or tow;
- - straw.
Instruction
1. In order that watermelon was stored as long as possible, observance of some conditions is necessary. The fruits which are selected by you shouldn't have damages, cracks, spots, etc. (the truth to find such watermelon in the market or in shop it is difficult, it is impossible more precisely). Overripe berries for storage are unsuitable. Has value and a grade. Only watermelons of late grades are good in this plan. The room for storage needs to be disinfected hydrated lime or vitriol. Temperature in it has to be maintained ranging from +3 up to +8 degrees (in heat watermelon will begin to ferment or will sprout), humidity – 80 – 85 percent (in the dry room he quickly becomes sluggish).
2. There are different storage techniques. The most known – storage in sand - as is stored, for example, by vegetables. In a wooden box fill dry sand. Dig in it watermelon. Establish a box in a cellar.
3. It is possible to store watermelon in hover. Wind it with fabric or newspapers, lay in a grid and suspend. Thus watermelons can be stored up to 3 months.
4. A good way – storage on a moss. The moss has to be dry. Prepare it in the summer in a dry sunny weather. Lay out a bottom of a wooden box a thick layer of a moss, from above lay watermelon. Put a box in a cellar.
5. The following method – storage in wood ashes. Fill ashes in a wooden barrel or a tub, lay watermelon there. From above fill up it with ashes. Densely cork a barrel and place in a cellar.
6. One more storage technique. Cover watermelon with clay or wind with tow. You store in the cool room, for example, everything in the same cellar.
7. Watermelons can be stored and just on racks. Lay them straw and lay the selected watermelons. They shouldn't adjoin with each other. Periodically examine them and overturn. During the work use gloves. Maintain indoors comfort temperature.