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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.

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The celery contains mass of substances useful to an organism, therefore it is expedient to take care of its preservation for the winter. Celery leaves break, braiding, at the basis and co-ordinating them in small bunches, dry in a shade. Celery root crops shake off from the earth, cut off from them roots and put in wooden boxes in a cellar, plentifully pouring their sand. To keep green leaves, a celery it is possible cover with earth in flowerpots and to deliver them on a window. https://igardener.org/

The horse-radish before storage needs to be touched carefully, rejecting the damaged roots and cutting off haulm. Then horse-radish roots dig in in damp sand, pour in a wooden or plywood box. Store a horse-radish at temperature not above 4 degrees of heat. At more heat of storage the horse-radish starts to sprout. https://igardener.org/

The swede intended for a prolonged storage, it is necessary to clean as it is possible later, before approach by a frost – the swede cleaned at this time longer and is better stored. At swede harvesting it is necessary to watch to damaging root crops. Swede haulm cut off near the basis, but do it cautiously not to damage a root crop. A swede clear of the earth and if root crops damp, dry them under a canopy.

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Radish, turnip and beet store, as well as carrot, in wooden boxes in height about 1 metre. It is possible to store these root crops and on a floor, sprinkle their small hillock. Haulm of a radish, turnip and a beet cut off at once after their harvesting.

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Parsnip prepare for storage the same as also parsley: touch, cut off haulm. To store a parsnip it is possible in a cellar or a cellar, having poured damp sand, or in trench, the same as carrot. https://igardener.org/

Parsley before storage touch, rejecting the damaged root crops. Leaves cut off at the basis. Store parsley in stacks in height about 70 cm and width in 1 metre, and also in boxes and baskets. At storage parsley pour a considerable quantity of damp sand so that separate root crops did not adjoin. Sand should be such humidity that gathered in a fist, it was not scattered. On a box bottom fill sand a layer in 1,5-2 cm, stack a parsley layer, plentifully pour its sand, then put a new layer of parsley – and so fill all box. Repeatedly sand to use it is impossible.

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Carrot can be stored in the trenches dug in the earth. Trenches dig out in the driest place of a garden, it is desirable located on a height. Depth of a trench should be about 80 cm, width – 100 cm, the length depends on quantity of carrot. Carrot spread in a trench, pouring dry sand. When to trench edge remains about 25 cm, on carrot put dry branches, rods and from above a trench fall asleep the earth a layer at 15-20 see From above, at hard frosts, it is possible to cover a trench in addition with straw, spruce branches and snow.

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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.

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Very important not only to reap a crop from a garden in an integrity and safety, but also to keep it further so that vegetables could be used within all winter.

For storage of vegetables special rooms – a cellar, a cellar are necessary. Before placing in them the gathered vegetables, in a cellar or a cellar to be spent careful harvesting, they are well aired. The temperature in a room in which vegetables are stored, should be not above 4-6 degrees of heat.

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