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Green cultures after harvesting quickly fade, therefore for a prolonged storage them usually dry or freeze. Dill, parsley, a celery and other greens can be kept within a week if them to deliver in water as a bunch of flowers. The greens can be stored in a refrigerator, having turned it in a polyethylene package. Many apply also such way of storage of greens: a polyethylene package inflate, as a balloon, and, having laid in it greens, fasten a package a cord and put in a refrigerator. So the greens can be stored about 2 weeks.

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For successful storage of garlic the temperature from 0 to 4 degrees of heat is required, therefore it store in refrigerators and cellars more often. Sometimes garlic specially store at much more heats, do it that on garlic there were the green shoots which use in food is very useful for a human body as they contain the vitamin E possessing antisclerous action.

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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.

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Ground cherry Mexican – rare enough plant in gardens of the Russian summer residents and countrymen, and after all from it it is possible to prepare mass of tasty culinary products. From the gathered fruits of a ground cherry reject the damaged. Fruits stack in wooden trellised boxes and store in a cellar. The room for ground cherry storage should be dry. If to put in boxes not ripened fruits of a ground cherry in couple of months they will ripen also them it will be possible to use in food. https://igardener.org/

From all breeds of a melon is better what have dense pulp are stored. Unripe melons do not suit storage. Optimum temperature for melon storage – +2 – + 4 degrees. On regiments of the racks intended for storage of a melon, fill a layer of sawdust and on them put melons. It is possible to store melons in nets, hanging out them on walls. At storage of melons in their boxes from above and from below shift dry straw. https://igardener.org/

Peas will remain for a long time and thus will not lose the taste if husk peas grain to pour salt and to leave for days. On 1 kg of peas ¹ / ₂ glasses of salt undertake. Then the appeared juice merge, pour peas into the enameled pan and warm up on a water bath about 1 hour. After that peas cool, pour into glass jars and store in a cold cellar or a refrigerator. Before the peas use in its food fill in with water and cook about 2 hours with sugar addition. https://igardener.org/

Before storage it is better to thermal processing to subject a bean – to pour out its thin layer on baking tray and to deliver it for 3-4 minutes in an oven. However thus it is necessary to consider, that the bean processed in such a way loses a germination though keeps completely all nutritious qualities. Thermal processing of a bean allows to get rid of insects-wreckers, especially from the larvas of a weevil spoiling a bean at storage.

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Zucchini vegetable marrows store both in cellars, and in rooms with a room temperature. For a prolonged storage a fruit stem of vegetable marrows cut off on 6-8 see Put a zucchini on regiments or a floor. https://igardener.org/

Eggplants, as well as sweet pepper, – a product perishable, therefore to start their processing it is necessary at once after harvesting. To keep eggplants within several days it is possible, having combined them in a dirty kind in a polyethylene package and having placed in a refrigerator. https://igardener.org/

The Bulgarian sweet pepper needs to be processed as soon as possible after harvesting. If you do not have possibility to start pepper processing immediately, put dirty pepper in a wooden box which deliver in a cold cellar. To store pepper within 3-4 days it is possible and in a refrigerator, having combined it in a polyethylene package. https://igardener.org/