Advantage of apples for a human body, especially weak children's, it is impossible to challenge. There is a wish that on a table of relatives these fruits always took a place of honor. And not only in the summer, but also in the winter when it is necessary to consume even more vitamins and mineral substances. It is possible to go to the nearest shop and to buy the apples offered there. And it is possible to take care of enrichment of a winter diet, having kept a harvest of apples till next spring. It is real to make it not only on the garden site, but also in the city apartment.
It is required to you
- - apples;
- - glycerin or vaseline oil;
- - food or tissue paper;
- - йодинол;
- - water;
- - wooden boxes;
- - sand, small shaving, sawdust or fragmented peat;
- - plastic bags;
- - dense bags.
Instruction
1. Prepare apples. For storage select the intact fruits, without wormholes, dark stains and crumpled sides, it is desirable with a fruit stem - "tail".
2. Wipe apples with a soft napkin, previously having moistened it in glycerin or vaseline oil. Or inwrap in a tissue food paper, everyone separately. It is also possible to dilute йодинол with water and to lower there apples for 10 minutes. Later, without wiping, to allow to dry.
3. The first way Prepare the room for storage of a harvest. It has to be dark and well aired. Optimum humidity of storage – 90%. Temperature which is the most suitable for long preservation of apples fluctuates from-1 to +1 degrees (depending on a grade of fruits).
4. Cover a bottom of a wooden box with high face levels sand or sawdust. It is possible to use also fragmented peat. Any of the listed materials has to be well dried, otherwise apples can decay.
5. Lay apples in a container in 1-2 layers, pouring the material chosen by you.
6. Make boxes one on another. Place them at an opportunity near potatoes which will give to apples excessive moisture. Thus, you solve two problems – at joint storage apples won't be wrinkled, and potatoes won't sprout.
7. Check apples once in 10-14 days, withdrawing those which begin to spoil.
8. The second way Cut out on one party of a plastic bag, approximately in the middle, an opening a slothole about 6-8 cm long. Put the prepared apples in a bag, having filled it to a half. Tie and remove to the dark place which doesn't freeze through (storeroom, a warm garage, a kitchen cabinet).
9. The third way Lay apples in bags, tie. Dig out a hole about 70-80 cm in depth. On a bottom put juniper branches, on them put bags. Cover with earth. Warm top straw or dry leaves. Note the place a milestone for simplification of further search of fruits.