For storage of cabbage in cellar winter grades which have been removed the middle of fall are chosen. At cut it is important to leave adjacent green leaves on such heads of cabbage. It will save cabbage from damages including microorganisms.
Everything begins with harvesting
Long to keep cabbage, it is necessary to reap its crop correctly. It becomes after the first frosts, the heads of cabbage tempered thus are more useful and more tasty.
Some gardeners practice to remove cabbage together with root, just shaking off it from the earth. After collecting, vegetables get over, look round regarding damage and rotting. Such kochna need to be started up at once in processing – to prepare from them, to make sour.
Before sending for storage the cabbage within a day needs to be dried, then to cut off cabbage stumps.
How to store cabbage in polyethylene
This storage technique is quite widespread. The dense plastic bag undertakes, keeps within it cabbage forks which leg with root at the same time remains outside. From package by means of the vacuum cleaner air is pumped out, then his mouth is tied around leg.
If for some reason you cannot use the vacuum cleaner, then it is possible to envelop just densely forks food wrap in several layers.
How to store cabbage in sand
It is possible to store cabbage in the basement or cellar in boxes with sand. For such storage the heads of cabbage are dug out with root. On bottom of the boxes prepared in advance a little sand is filled, heads of cabbage keep within backs up so that they did not adjoin with each other. Then cabbage becomes covered with sand completely, except cabbage stumps with roots.
There is also the second option of storage of cabbage in sand. Heads of cabbage with roots land in sand layer up to 20 centimeters, as on beds. At such way the cabbage can even take roots.
Storage of cabbage in clay or paper
To store cabbage, wrapping it in paper, too pretty popular way. It is acceptable if the place for storage not really crude, with low air humidity. Forks are wrapped in paper and are displayed on shelves so that there was no contact.
And here that it is possible to store cabbage in clay, know not many. But it is possible to call this way ancient, still our far ancestors used it. And it is great option, there can be even the most effective. Glyn needs to part to density of sour cream and to carefully cover with it cabbage, so carefully to be convinced that there is definitely no contact with air. It is better to dry up clay on the street, it is desirable to suspend heads of cabbage.
As still it is possible to store cabbage
Options of storage there is weight. It is possible to suspend cabbage for cabbage stumps, having connected them in pairs, heads of cabbage at the same time are one above another. Great way, considering good ventilation of air.
If you have no cellar, then it is possible to store cabbage in the frozen look in the freezing chamber. This option will be suitable for preparations for borsch, for suppression or frying. Cabbage is sliced and stacked a la carte in plastic bags. This option will allow to save time for cooking.