It is necessary not only to grow up cabbage, to important provide the correct conditions for its storage. It will allow to keep harvest till spring, and it is possible also till the next season. The term of safety of cabbage depends also on its grade therefore when choosing planting stock it is necessary to decide how you are going to use the received harvest.
It is required to you
- - plastic bags or food wrap;
- - vacuum cleaner;
- - boxes;
- - sand or earth.
Instruction
1. Wait for the first frosts, it is considered that for the best safety the cabbage has to stand at temperature 0o With or is slightly lower. Pull out cabbage together with roots, clean roots from the earth, but do not cut off. Tear off excess leaves and let's cabbage dry out several hours in the open air. It is necessary in order that those places where leaves have been broken off or cut off have dried up.
2. Pick up plastic bag of the suitable size. It is possible to use packages for garbage, the main thing that they were rather dense and had no damages. Put head of cabbage in package so that outside there was only his leg.
3. Take the vacuum cleaner and disconnect from it brush – so that there was free hose. Turn on the vacuum cleaner, insert the end of hose into package of head of cabbage and pump out the vacuum cleaner all air from package. After the package densely clasps cabbage, take out hose and quickly tighten package mouth around leg of head of cabbage. Your cabbage is hermetically packed into polyethylene, and it will not allow it to decay or dry under the influence of too damp or too dry air in cellar.
4. If the option with the vacuum cleaner seems to you too labor-consuming, just envelop heads of cabbage food wrap or pack them into plastic bag without air pumping – it will prolong storage life of cabbage too.
5. One more option of how to keep cabbage is in the winter to lay heads of cabbage to the earth or sand. Take the big boxes suitable on height for storage of cabbage. Prepare heads of cabbage: pull out from the earth with roots, clean. Fill layer of sand or the earth on box bottom, lay heads of cabbage so that they did not adjoin with each other, and fill up them with sand so that outside there was only leg.