Gardener

Potato to dig out it is necessary cautiously not to damage tubers. The gathered potato touch, cut off the tubers damaged by diseases, pests. Remained half, the cut off tubers need to be stored separately and to use in food as soon as possible. The touched potato dry under the sun within several hours.

To store a potato it is necessary in trellised wooden boxes. The bottom of such boxes also should be trellised that the potato at storage was aired and did not decay. In boxes a potato pour a layer nearby 100 see If the potato did not manage to be dried well, at first boxes fill only half, and in some days when the potato in them will dry, boxes fill up up to the top.

It is possible to apply and other way of storage of a potato. The gathered tubers of a potato carefully wash out in warm (but not hot) water and dry on the sun. After that pour a potato in boxes also store it in a cellar. At such way of storage of a potato decay damages much less tubers.

Optimum temperature for potato storage – about +3 degrees. A room in which the potato is stored, it is necessary to air regularly to prevent decay development.

The potato can be stored in trenches under snow. In the earth dig out a trench depth nearby 70 the Length and width of a trench see depends on quantity of a potato. On a trench bottom stack the polyethylene film combined several times. On a film pour out a potato which from above close a layer of dry leaves, straw, spruce branches or sawdust, over a warming layer put some sticks and fall asleep a trench the earth or sawdust. With approach of frosts a trench throw snow.

In trench together with a potato it is possible to store a beet. https://igardener.org/