How to keep carrots till spring - natural question of summer residents after aestivo-autumnal harvest season. And those who should buy carrots all the same should resolve issue with its storage. Sposobov exists enough, it is necessary to choose optimum convenient for everyone.
Instruction
1. It is possible to keep carrots till spring at right choice of grade. It is considered that early ripening varieties as late-ripening in the course of long stay in the earth will absorb in themselves elements which will reduce storage life subsequently best of all are subject to storage. Or, on the contrary, taking into account climatic zone, approach of late spring and early fall, carrots simply will not ripen, without having saved up enough the necessary substances.
2. Timely harvesting will be reflected in storage life. There is no specific period and date of cleaning, for each grade the rules. Usually producers specify landing time, the term of maturing and expected cleaning on package of seeds. Otherwise there will be difficulties with determination of term, but also it is not problem. It is possible to orient on color of tops of vegetable: when the lower leaves begin to turn yellow, then to start harvesting.
3. Before digging it is not necessary to make watering. Right after cleaning at carrots it is necessary to cut off tops of vegetable because it at storage will extend moisture from root crop. And later on 0.5 - 1 cm to cut off part of carrots from adjunction of tops of vegetable. Such process will prevent germination of root crop during storage that in turn will allow to keep tastes. Though many prefer to cut off tops of vegetable, without touching fruit. Further it is desirable to allow vegetable to lie down in the dark aired place. To keep carrots till spring, having excluded premature damage, it is necessary to remove before storage from among fruits those which have defects: sick, rotten, spoiled by slugs, mice and other wreckers, cracked, etc.
4. It is much simpler to keep carrots till new harvest if there is cellar or the basement. Storage in sand (loamy, soil sand) will become optimum which on the characteristics interferes with emergence and reproduction of rotten formations, well holds continuous temperature and keeps moisture in root crops. Process consists in laying of layer of sand, wetting by its water and laying of carrots in a row without contact. Further the procedure repeats before filling of box.
5. It is possible to store carrots in cellar in sand not only in boxes, but also just "in bulk" - put in shoulders or pyramids, having in the same way poured sand which in process of drying needs to be moistened. Base layer – always sand.
6. Instead of sand it is possible to use opit (surely coniferous) which is fine brake for distribution and penetration of bacteria and pathogenic fungi. Sand also opit are the most widespread fillers for storage of carrots. It is also possible to use moss or onions peel, to cover with paraffin, to turn in newspapers. Process of storage in clay which forms protective film on root crop surface will be more labor-consuming.
7. It is possible to stock up with the enameled pans and then to densely lay in them carrots in vertical position. Root crops have to be clean and dry. From above it is covered with napkin or light fabric and put to the dark cool place. Of ways the storage in film bags which have to be opened or closed, but with openings for ventilation will become simple. It is necessary that the saved carbon dioxide emitted from carrots did not make negative impact on storage process.
8. How to keep carrots till spring directly on bed? The tops of vegetable is for this purpose cut off, sand is filled up from above and covered with film over which keeps within opit, dry foliage and peat. All this pie is covered with roofing material and one more layer of film. Thus, carrots will not freeze and will perfectly keep the exterior and tastes all winter.
9. And how to keep carrots till spring of the house, in the absence of cellar? It is the best of all to freeze, having largely rubbed and having decomposed on cellophane sacks. In the presence of balcony or loggia it is possible and there, in boxes, it is good them having wrapped up and having warmed. The option with warming quite labor-consuming (then it is necessary to get and again to wrap up), but will be reserve of fresh vitamins for all winter.