How to keep vegetables during the winter"

is possible to store only late-ripening grades and hybrids of vegetables (potato, carrots, cabbage). Buy vegetables without damages. Their safety depends humidity and air temperature.

1. Carrots

Carrots are stored 2-3 months at a temperature from 0 to + 1C and at humidity of air of 98%.

Before storage it is necessary to cut off a tops of vegetable (try not to damage a root crop) and to dry properly. Stack carrots ranks, between ranks strew with mix of damp sand and chalk (chalk interferes with damage). Instead of chalk and sand it is possible to use damp peat, it also has bactericidal properties.

2. Cabbage

Cabbage is stored 2 months at a temperature from-1 to + 1C and humidity of air of 95%.

For storage the cabbage should be collected in the first decade of October. Select small heads of cabbage, leave on them green leaves (they interfere with penetration of pathogenic microflora).

If you are going to store cabbage "in bulk", a stump leave no more than 3 cm that other heads of cabbage were not damaged.

3. Beet

Beet is stored 4-5 months at a temperature from 0 to + 1C and humidity of air of 98%.

At rainy weather beet which is in the earth is surprised fomozy (brown spots on a tuber). Such beet is not subject to storage.

To be stored beet also as well as carrots, but thanks to thicker covers lies usually longer. You need to cut off only a tops of vegetable and to dry vegetable before storage. It is optional to strew beet with peat or sand.

4. Potatoes

Potatoes are stored 3-4 months at a temperature from +3 to + 4C and humidity of air of 85-90%. At more high temperatures the tubers begin to sprout, and at colder temperatures potatoes become sweet.

It is necessary to store potatoes far away from light as under its influence it turns green and accumulates solanin. It is possible to store potatoes and on a balcony, for this purpose it is necessary to make a mini-cellar of boards. As thermal insulation polyfoam will approach – upholster with it a cellar from within.

5. Onions

Onions are stored 6 months at a temperature to - 3C.

The most important condition of storage of onions is to avoid an otsyrevaniye. For this purpose before storage onions should be dried properly.

Onions can be stored in a network near or on the battery. There the driest zone in the house. Also onions can be connected in braids and to suspend.