Gardener

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.

Before storage of vegetables the room needs to be whitewashed a solution of a slaked lime which prepares in a proportion: 2,5 kg of lime, 100 gram a blue vitriol on 10 litres of water.

If you do not have cellar or a cellar, you can suit on the garden storehouse for vegetables from a metal barrel in capacity of 150 litres. A barrel drive in the earth so that its upper edge acted over the earth approximately on 10 see On a barrel bottom lay a wooden circle, and round a barrel lay boards. For the best safety of vegetables before digging a barrel, it is necessary to grease its walls with the bitumen cultivated by kerosene. A barrel close a wooden cover which can be strengthened a tin.

In such storehouse it is possible to fall asleep a potato, carrot, a beet and many other things vegetables. The flank needs to be loaded vegetables not completely, from above the warming layer of sawdust, spruce branches keeps within it or straw which is covered with a polyethylene film and a cover.

At absence of a barrel vegetables can be stored and in the hole which has been dug out in the earth. It is necessary to revet walls of such hole with boards and veneer, and from above to establish a wooden ceiling from boards with the hatch.

For a prolonged storage select the vegetables which have been not damaged by pests and diseases. Besides, vegetables should not be damaged mechanically. Before storage vegetables are necessary for clearing of the earth, to dry.

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