In September on beds different late root crops continue to grow. Carrots - one of them. In time harvested does not guarantee good safety yet. What needs to be considered and as it is correct to carry out cleaning of carrots?
Carrots at the end of August and in September when average daily temperatures decrease, intensively gather sugar and nutrients that gives powerful increase of harvest to 40-50%. These weeks all nutrients from leaves pass into root crops. If to dig out it early, then the nutritional value will be low. To overdo carrots on bed - and it is possible to lose in quality: root crops from perezrevaniye can not only lose the juiciness and gain bitterness, but also begin to burst.
It is possible to be guided only by biological terms of maturing, but it is not always justified. Many factors influence maturing of root crops, for example, weather, agrotechnology, etc.
Carrots at approach of steady low temperatures, from 8-7os below, stop the growth.
""Tell"" leaves about it. They get yellow lifeless coloring and polegat. If to pull out carrots from the earth and to notice new young backs on root crop, then it is necessary to start outplanting urgently.
The main factor of successful storage of carrots is the correctly chosen term for its collecting. The removed carrots at high autumn temperatures will not be stored. Therefore, it did not become rather cold yet (but to frosts), it is not necessary to remove carrots.
It is necessary to dig out root crops in dry weather. At the same time at once carry out sorting. The small, non-standard and damaged carrots are used for processing first of all. Handle qualitative root crops carefully, trying not to damage gentle thin skin. The tops of vegetable of leaves is not turned off, and cut off sharp knife in the area of the sleeping eyes, i.e. cut off the top on 1.2 mm that at storage the root crops did not sprout. Dry on air no more than an hour, otherwise it fades, further remove on storage.
Carrots are stored in sand, placed in plastic bags, stratified rowan leaves, use moss. Some wash root crops, dry and then stack in packages. However washing should be done, trying not to damage gentle thin skin. In such look carrots (small portions) not bad remain in vegetables compartment in the fridge.