In Russia the people began to grow up carrots still for a long time, and already then they were able to preserve a harvest all winter. Since then storage methods not strongly changed - all principles remained the same, conditions were just improved. How it is better to keep carrots till spring?
To keep a carrots harvest till spring, it is necessary to collect it correctly
To keep carrots throughout all winter, to start it it is necessary to dig out correctly. It is better to do it in dry weather, it is difficult to peel wet vegetables from the earth and much longer to dry.
For excavation of carrots it is the best of all to choose a small garden scapula not to damage the top layer of carrots.
After the harvest is dug out, it should be dried. It is the best of all to do it on a porch of the house or a balcony at warm weather. But if on the street cloudy or pours a rain, then it is necessary to lay indoors a dry laying, for example the newspaper, to lay out vegetables in one layer and to allow them to dry out to steam of days.
After vegetables dried, it is necessary to peel them from the remains of the soil and to cut off a tops of vegetable at distance of several millimeters from carrots.
Then process of search which it is necessary to treat very seriously follows. It is necessary to select healthy root crops carefully. Cracked or scratched best of all to use in the nearest future as microbes will get to damages, and it will lead to process of rotting and death of all batch of vegetables.
How to keep carrots all winter in a cellar
Better to keep carrots all winter, temperature of the room has to be not lower than-3 degrees and not higher than +5. And humidity about 90%. Before placing vegetables to be stored in a cellar, it is necessary to tidy up well in it, any mold or a rotten product can spoil all works. And it is the best of all to disinfect the room a sulfuric checker.
There are many storage techniques of carrots in a cellar. It is possible to put it in a plastic bag with several small openings at the bottom through which condensate will leave, the package doesn't need to be tied. Don't put a package near a wall at distance of at least 10 cm and use a support or the shelf that carrots didn't lie on a floor. This way the simplest, but, alas, not the best.
Sawdust from coniferous breeds of trees will be necessary for us for the following method of storage of carrots. It is necessary to scatter sawdust a uniform layer in some container, a flank, a box and on them to spread carrots in one layer, and already from above vegetables it is necessary to fill coniferous sawdust again. Substances which to contain in sawdust of coniferous trees, will prevent diseases and rotting of carrots.
This option not from the cleanest, but is considered effective is the best way to keep carrots all winter. If you already had experiments when carrots decayed in a cellar, then use it. Dissolve solution of clay in a bucket and bring it to fluidity. Then you lower each root crop in solution and you allow it to dry. Then you put in a basket or a box and you place in a cellar.
This way similar to previous. It is necessary to pound chalk in powder and to cover carrots with a thin layer, it is possible to tell to powder. Properties of chalk won't allow harmful bacteria to breed. If you have a large number of an onions peel, then it is too option to keep a carrots harvest all winter. It is necessary to place only root crops in a bag with onions "clothes" and to lower it to the basement or a cellar. The onions peel will absorb excess moisture and to prevent rotting process.