Storing the harvest of beans, onions and garlic, potatoes and cabbage - advice from a summer resident
HOW TO STORE VEGETABLES IF THERE IS NO CELLAR?
The topic is relevant. In order not to switch from your vegetables to purchased ones in winter, carefully read the advice of an experienced gardener.
The article prompted me to write a letter A.P. Mishachenkova "How to kill a bug"... I also decided to tell you how I save a rich, environmentally friendly crop grown without chemicals, protecting it from these very bugs.
So, I take any glass or metal jar (there is no difference, the main thing is to close it tightly), pour beans or something else into it, put two heads of garlic on top and close it tightly with a lid. It is stored for a year or more, until it is used up (you can see it in the photo).
Onions and garlic are well stored in flour paper bags (2 kg each). I put them in wooden fruit crates - each holds 8 bags. I fold the boxes in the hallway and store their contents until the next harvest. Preservation of garlic - 100%, onion -90%.
I store potatoes, carrots, beets and cabbage on a glazed loggia in broccoli boxes with a capacity of two buckets each - they are thrown away by supermarkets. They are sealed, with lids, made of foam (60 mm) and can withstand cold temperatures down to -10 °. In frosts, we cover with something warm and put on a warm rug near the room window. Thanks to this storage, the potatoes do not freeze and even germinate by the spring.
I harvest cabbage only in dry weather, without tearing off the green leaves. I wrap it with cling film and store it that way.
I would also like to share a few secrets of growing horticultural crops and preventing various diseases.
From the Colorado potato beetle and wireworm, when planting potatoes, I put 1 tbsp in the holes. l. ash, onion peels and a few pieces of dried orange peels, and around the perimeter, where the potatoes will be planted, sow calendula in the fall. Precisely in the fall: this is the whole secret so that it sprouts before the potatoes sprout. Thanks to this method, I forgot a long time ago what these "animals" look like.
In the greenhouse where I grow tall tomatoes, I plant hot peppers along the perimeter along the windows and hang bottles of iodine. In July, between the tomatoes I sow mustard, in August I cut it off and fold it under the tomatoes, while the roots of the mustard remain in the ground. In the fall, when I remove the tops of tomatoes, I dig the ground with a pitchfork, without turning it over, but only tearing off the roots of the mustard. Thanks to such manipulations, my tomatoes never get sick, they are always clean, large, tasty. In the photo there are varieties of Bull's Heart and Riddles of Nature.
A few words about the earthworm Penelope. It is not difficult to grow it. I don't process it at all, it grows by itself under the apple trees, almost wild. At the same time, it gives an excellent harvest - the berries are small, but very sweet and tasty, much sweeter than garden strawberries in culture. The photo shows how it blooms, how many berries.
I always have large yields of garlic, carrots, beets, potatoes and root celery (the secrets of growing - in the next letter).
Dear friends! Share your secrets of harvest storage - this topic is always extremely important! The only request: do not forget to send seasonal materials in advance - two to three months before the planned publication date, so that your letter does not wait for its turn next year. And please do not forget to number the photos if you refer to them in the letter. I wish you rich harvests!
Reference by topic: We store vegetables without a cellar: 5 alternative ways
© Author: G. Magdieva. Ufa
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