Gardener

Many root crops gather hands, pulling out vegetables from the earth for the bottom part of haulm. By the way, one of signs of that the root crop is time for cleaning, the grown brown haulm which leaves start to fall down and bend down to the earth serves.

Such root crops as carrot, a beet, deeply are in the earth, therefore dig out them pitchfork.

At root crops, at once after their harvesting, cut off haulm as at storage from it a lot of moisture evaporates that spoils safety of a fruit. To cut off haulm it is necessary cautiously, not damaging a fruit.

Root crops clear of the earth, wiping their dry rag, and some hours dry on open air. Then fruits pour in boxes or on regiments in a cellar or a cellar.

Such root crops as carrot, parsley, turnip remain is worse, than a beet, a swede, a radish, therefore they need to be stored in the wooden boxes, poured by dry sand. Boxes should be height about 80 cm and slightly be narrowed up. At storage carrot and other root crops it is necessary regularly (not less often 2 times a month) to touch and delete rotting root crops. At detection decayed a box release from root crops, touch them, then again pour in a box and pour fresh dry sand. Carrot, turnip, parsley, a celery is longer are stored at temperature from 0 to +2 degrees. Relative humidity in a room in which root crops are stored, should make about 90 %. https://igardener.org/