How to keep harvest

How to keep harvest

In the fall all people prepare the dwellings for arrival of cold weather, and summer residents also are puzzled with how in the winter to keep the reaped crop. The cellar for storage of harvest has to be aired well, on walls, ceiling and floor there should not be mold. It is rather simple to keep harvest, it is only necessary to know how it is correct to store any given type of vegetables.

Instruction

1. Ideal time for preparation of apples that moment when the thin skin of fruit begins to brighten is considered, and the party which is on light gets necessary coloring. Remove apple accurately, try not to break off fruit stem. Do not erase natural wax raid from fruits. Wrap apples for safety in fruit oil-impregnated paper or pour small excelsior or put 3 kg of apples in plastic bag and suspend them.

2. You store late pears in plastic bags or in boxes, only previously pour them excelsior.

3. Put watermelons in cellar so that they did not adjoin with each other. Spread out them on the trellised shelf, having turned tails up.

4. If you want to keep melons till winter, then collect immature fruits, spread out them in cellar to the trellised shelf or just suspend.

5. You store pumpkin as watermelons. Cover the damaged thin skin of fruit with brilliant green, cut off shanks, and powder places of cuts with unslaked lime. If the pumpkin tail becomes wet, cut off it and dry the place of cut candle flame.

6. To keep harvest of grapes choose that grade which has thick thin skin, natural wax raid and firm pulp. For long storage prepare grapes in the fall on dry and sunny day. Select the rarefied clusters and accurately cut off them scissors. Select clusters where there are no damaged berries and put in box in one row. Stack boxes up to the two-meter height. For longer storage pour grapes clusters sawdust of powder of sulfur and wood charcoal. If you cut off brushes with part of escape, then dip the top cut of escape into liquid paraffin, and lower dip into water on depth of fifteen centimeters.

7. Put all other vegetables in cellar: potatoes, carrots, beet, squash, etc. The most part of fruits can be stored just in chests, but here it is desirable to pour carrots and beet sand. If you think in advance of safety of vegetables, then all winter to you will be, than to regale.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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