Onions storage
From all vegetables onions start to clean the first. To start harvesting it is possible, when onions feathers start to dry up and turn yellow, and the neck will be softened. Onions gather hands, pulling out bulbs for the bottom part of feathers.
After onions will take out from the earth, it put on the sun that it has dried up. If weather does not allow to dry up onions on open air, it pour an equal layer on a floor in a dry, well aired room. In a week of drying at onions cut off feathers. To do it it is necessary cautiously so that not to damage a bulb. The damaged bulb quickly rots. Sometimes feathers do not cut off, and overwind them in "scythes" and store onions together with them. Onions suspend on threads for not cut off feathers on walls of a subsidiary room, temperature in which about 20 degrees.
Onions with the cut off feathers pour in wooden trellised boxes, baskets, on regiments of a rack and store in a cellar or a cellar. To fill onions it is necessary a layer nearby 50 see
It is regularly necessary to touch and attentively to examine a bulb. The onions start to decay with a neck, therefore having found out rotting of a bulb in the field of a neck, immediately delete this bulb that decay has not extended on all other onions.
Is better onions it is stored at temperature from 0 to 3 degrees of heat, but it is possible to store it and at more heat. Relative humidity in a room in which the onions are stored, should be 80-90 96.
Leek storage
Other kind of onions – a leek – store in cellars or cellars, pouring sand. Optimum temperature for leek storage – +2 degrees.
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