Preface

How to store beets to use in the winter to use root roots grown in its own area, the question is not only an economic nature, but also a healthy full nutritional nutrition. After all, besides the fact that purchased vegetables in the period before the next harvest are more expensive, their quality may be very low (for example, they can be sick, nursed, contain nitrates), and not excluded acquisition instead of dining beets instead.

What dining room beet is suitable for long-term storage?

Of course, as for other vegetables, long storage It is necessary to lay off the entire consecutive yield of dining beet, but selectively. The execution of this condition is very important, but not the most important thing. The fact is that not all varieties of this vegetable are able to be kept for a long time. If you choose seeds from the wrong type for landing, then all spent efforts to grow, collect and storing roots in the hope that winter on the table will be dishes from their beets, may be in vain. And let the vegetables of the resulting harvest are extremely healthy and beautiful if they are varieties with bad fierce, then very soon they will have to either throw them away, or in a rush to recycle and put it.

For long-term storage, the following varieties of beets are designed: Renova, Salad, Cold-resistant 19, Mulatto, Red Ball, Baldhardi, Promotional A-474, Flat Mushroom A-474, Libero, Detroit, Bravo, Egyptian flat, incomparable A-463, Nasovskaya Flat , Pablo F1, one-built, Bordeaux 237.

In terms of focuses, these varieties are the best. But first of all, attention should be paid to the dining beet of local selection. Her varieties most often will be optimal option Not only for growing a good harvest, but also for its successful and long-term storage.

But, for example, a cylinder variety, which is very popular and is almost almost in each country, is not suitable for winter storage. His roots are remarkable taste quality, but the hedgehog is much worse than those of the above varieties.

Rules for the preparation of dining beets for storage

Regardless of the variety, preparing for storage begins with proper harvest of the beets. It needs to be collected before the first frosts. Korneflodes of beets grow near the surface of the soil, and the upper part of them and comes at all out of the ground, so that even in the case of a small frost, they can be frozen and become unsuitable for storage.

For harvesting, it is best to choose dry and calm, desirable, sunny autumn day. And it is more pleasant to work, and this will contribute to long-term storage of dining beet. It is not necessary to collect a crop too. It is absolutely impossible to pull the root roots by pulling the tops. The skin beet skin is likely to be damaged about the ground and pebbles in it: Sodan, scratched or cut. Such roots shortly after laying on storage will begin to rot and do not lay long. Moreover, because of them can begin to deteriorate and intact healthy beets.

Collector roots need to be assembled with a shovel either fork:

1. Immerse the tool bayonet to the ground next to beet.
2. Pressing the shovels on the stalk, slightly raise the root of the root along with the soil.
3. Gently stretch the vegetable from the fault of the earth for the tops or take it out.

Immediately it is necessary to clean the root roots from the ground. The cloves of the soil on the surface of beets during storage will be absorbed by moisture and become a favorable medium for the rented bacteria contained in them. But to strive at any cost, it is certainly not worth removing all the land too. More importantly, when cleaning does not damage vegetables. Therefore, it is absolutely unacceptable to use a sinner, knife and other objects, strongly put into firmly sticky lumps of soil with hand and beat the beet one about another. Rights separately need a slightly shake over the tops, and the rest of the earth try to remove with a slight pressure of the thumb.If it did not work, it is better to leave as it is. From this harm will be less than from damaged peel root.

When the harvest assembly occurs in dry weather, it is not likely to consider the Earth. If the soil is fat and wet, it will be easily removed by the above methods. Problems, as a rule, arise from those who clean the vegetables later - after transportation and drying, before booking for storage.

Then the beets need to trim the tops. And not completely, according to the most root, and leaving a small tail length of 1-1.5 cm. Unscrew or laundry the BOTS manually is not recommended - it is necessary to cut it.

Then we break the side roots. We must try at the same time not to damage the root roof. If the main root is strongly long and branched, it is allowed to cut it a bit, leaving the tail 5-7 cm. However, the beets are better to store when it remains completely integer - less than the chance of infection.

Then you need to select beets that will be laid for long-term storage. We leave only strong, whole and healthy root corners. All damaged, with signs of illness and faded vegetables should be postponed separately. They should be used in the near future. They will not be stored for a long time, and even by starting or continuing to deteriorate, they will infect a healthy beet. It is also desirable that the selected roots are not very large. Beets are best and longer, the diameter of which is up to 12 cm, and the big lies bad. Drying - the last stage of preparation beets to storage.

Wash roots neither before, never after that!

If the beet harvest occurs in warm dry weather, then all its preparation for storage can be performed directly on the bed. For drying, we unfold selected roots, if under the sun - for 2 hours, and in the shade - about 4 hours. No longer needed, otherwise the vegetables will begin to approve.

When the beets had to dig out from the wet earth, maybe even in the rain and the weather in the coming day does not allow you to dry her on the street, it follows in the room. It is desirable that it is well ventilated. I scatter root on the floor in 1 layer. Drying wet beets in the room lasts from 2-3 to 7 days.

The best conditions and methods for storing beets

The best beets are stored in sandboxes in a dark cool room. Conditions that need to create:

• humidity level 95-90%;
• temperature 0 ... +2 o C;
• it is desirable for natural air ventilation.

Under such conditions, roots can be saved to spring and even longer. It is most important to maintain the temperature, especially the first 1-2 months after laying beets, because if it rises at least up to +4 o C, the vegetables will start germinate from the top, and this will significantly reduce the shelf life. It is also impossible to allow a decrease in temperature below 0 ° C, otherwise the roots are frozen. Then they, again, do not save for a long time.

In the apartment of such conditions for storing beets, it is impossible to create - only in the basement or cellar. The sand in the boxes should be pure river sifted, preferably washed and calcined in the oven or dried in the sun. I fall asleep it on the bottom of the container layer 8-10 cm. Then we lay the vegetables so that they do not touch each other. We spend on top of them with sand, making a 2-3 cm layer over them. So lay the beet to the top of the box. Each month should be checked the condition of the root. Becomed to deteriorate must be deleted, and the abnormal of the Bott is cut. That's how to properly store beets, so that it exactly flew to spring.

• In polyethylene bags with ventilation holes with a capacity of 35-40 kg. They are suspended and tightly not tied for air access.
• In Lara with potatoes. Beets should be put on top of the tuber in 1 layer. Potato will give extra moisture to the root of the root, which they need.
• Small pyramids (bouches) on the shelves either in small boxes with holes providing air circulation. Shelves and boxes should be placed no lower than 15 cm from the floor.
• In peat, table salt or sawdust. They, like sand, spend root roots laid by layers in boxes. If in sawdust, the state of the roots is desirable to check more often than once a month.
• Rosyry in a separate lare, the bottom and the walls of which are lattice, with slits.

These methods are proper fulfillment And maintaining the required conditions can also be allowed to preserve vegetables until spring.

Beets Before laying on keeping, it is desirable to drink sifted wood ash Either to go in a mela powder. It will protect root from diseases and slow down the propagation of damage from one to others. Small vegetables are better to lay storage separately from large.

Storage Beets in the apartment

This option is the least preferable, as it is very difficult to store beets in the winter. More, for which you can count - root crops will lay 3-4 months. Methods for storing the same as for the cellast. Best of all in low boxes, moving sand. The entire storage period must be monitored so that the filler remains dry.

The best conditions can be created on a warmed loggia, but there is a great risk of frozen root in a heavy frost. And if you go through this room, it is difficult to withstand the desired temperature - up to +4 o C. But still there are better conditions than in the rooms. To prevent the frozen root, root can be placed in which it will be necessary to build. Either their frost will have to cover with warm blankets.

Keep the beets in the rooms of the apartment can be in the hotel, storage room; under the cabinet, bed; The main one away from the batteries and in the dark. In the refrigerator, wrapped every tight in food foil or parchment paper, beets can be stored for 2-3 months.

Grow good harvest Kornemplodov is great, honorable and nice. But the same sun, air and water that helped us achieve such success in the summer, in winter it may well win smoothly into full defeat. Therefore, it is very important to armonize knowledge that will help keep all the beets that we have grown in the country area, without annoying mistakes and hurt losses.

Grow a good harvest of the coarse - it's great, honorable and nice

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We select varieties suitable for long-term storage

Not all beet varieties are suitable for long-term storage. In order not to make a mistake, you need to know which efforts they possess. Because, whatever healthy and beautiful rootes, if they are not intended for long storage, they will be stored and will not. And as a result - deceived hopes, rotten fruit and disappointment.

Well, why do we need these troubles, is it better to know in advance that we can expect from the variety that grow? The following varieties are characterized by high levels of layout:

• "Renova"
• "Mulatto"
• "Latest A-474"
• "Liebero"
• "Egyptian Flat"
• "Bordeaux 237"
• "Salad"
• "One-built"
• "Inconsistent A463"
• "Pablo F1"
• "Cold-resistant 19"
• "Detroit"
• "Bathardi"
• "Mushroom Flat A473"

But the variety of "cylinder", which is grown by almost every country, at least its fruits and are distinguished by excellent taste, it does not fit for long-term storage, because it is lower than those of listed varieties. But just "cylinder" is often stored and laid!

Grade "Cylinder"

Special attention should be paid to varieties of local selection - They will most often be the best option for growing and successful crop storage.

Rules for the preparation of beets for storage

Often, the summer houses catastrophically harm themselves, incorrectly treating the crop just a dug. After all, it is fairly inactively pulling the roots from the ground, walk along them in boots, to damage with a knife when cleaning, and everything, the process of infection is launched ... Wait for diseases, rot and loss of good half of the crop ... Therefore, so that the beets pleased to the new summer, it is necessary to take into account several Non-hard, but very important moments.

Collect beet

You will say: "What can be easier: pulled back - beetted and pulled out of the soil!". But no, with this method, we risk damage to the root of the root of the root of dry earth and pebbles - scratch, trimmed or cut. And thereby significantly reduce the life of the crop ...

It is right - so: a shovel or forks to dig roots, a little lifting them with soil. And then it's easily and gently pull out the leaves or choose with your hands.

For cleaning it is best to choose a duck of a dry autumn day. And harvest is more pleasant, and useful for future conservation. For the weather forecast, it will be necessary to monitor very carefully: the beet must be removed before frosts, because the part of the root plates protruding from the ground even with a small frost, they will become already unsuitable for storage.

Before storage is necessary see all cornestods.

• If the beet is removed into dry warm weather - you can dry it here, on Groke. Two or four hours will be quite enough. If the beet is for a long time in the open sky, it will start losing moisture and approve.

• If the roots have to get from the wet earth, and even in the rain, you will need to dry in room, preferably - well ventilated, scattering beetners into one layer. In the room, the drying continues much longer: from 2-3 days and even until the week.

First processing

It is carried out immediately after the beets are dug and sucked in air. In this case, follow the following rules and sequences of actions:

• Slightly clean Roots from excess land (clay, dirt). At the same time, it is completely unacceptable to beat the roots of each other or consider lumps of dirt with a knife, chips, other objects. Any, even very tiny skin damage is a gate for infection, and she, believe me, will not miss the chance and will definitely penetrate into a healthy root. What, and there are enough harmful microorganisms in the soil.

• Cut backBut not completely, until the root of the root, and leaving the "tail" size up to 1 cm. A common error - having toolate (twisting) manually topping. This is not recommended.

• Remove side roots, trying not to damage the root of the root.

• Main rootit is allowed to cut, leaving the tail up to 5-7 cm. But, if it is not very long and branchy, better to savehis fully- Less will be the chance of infection.

• Roots do not wash!

By and large, it is not even sorting, but a preventive inspection and rejection: patients damaged, fallen rooted roots are removed, but only selected for storage healthy, strong, not damaged and not very large. Large fruits are more rough fiber, poorly stored and clogged. The best heads in the diameter of up to 10-12 cm are best stored.

In case of inspection, it is possible to "milk" the roots from the dirt residues (it is best to make hands in tissue gloves, and when sorting it usually happens). But here you need to consider: "Super chip" for beets is just not needed, because the thin layer of adhesive land even helps storage. You only need to clean the lumps of the Earth, which can damage the neighboring fruits, and more loose lumps of the soil and sink themselves.

Storage beet

Purified, dried and sorted root corneters are ready for a bookmark for long-term storage. What method for this you choose, in which package you will store, which mode will be able to provide - depends only on your conditions. We will tell you different ways and options from which you can choose the most suitable.

For the storage of beets, traditional, struggled methods are used:

• outdoor: in trenches and pits;
• in room: in the cellar, basement, underground, dark room, on the balcony or in the refrigerator.

In what form and in which container to store beets - the choice of the host, and choose from what. Beets with equal success can be stored:

• bulk, in the barts or bins;

• in drawers and baskets - in the open way;
• pyramids on shelves or racks;
• in the closed way - in the boxes with sand;
• on potato - in boxes or bags.

Conditions of storage beet

Self better conditions For the storage of beets - this is, of course, a basement or cellar, where:

• dark;

• the temperature is maintained from 0 ºС to + 2ºС;
• the humidity level is respected within 90-92%;
• there is a natural air circulation;
• the possibility of fooling is excluded.

It is especially important to comply with such storage conditions in the first 1-2 months, because at a temperature of + 4ºС, the beets starts to germinate the tops, and this will significantly reduce the shelf life. To maintain the natural circulation of air, stored roots should be on top at least 15 cm from the floor.Well, if there is no mechanical damage and it is not infected with diseases, is well stored even in a simple embankment. But "for loyalty", there are quite a few receptions in the summer houses, which significantly increase the safety of the root plates during long-term storage.

• Beets are well kept with . In this case, the roots are stacked on top of potatoes in one layer. Potatoes give up an extra moisture beet, which just needs it in it.

• Excellent way to store beet - in sand. But it must be necessary or rolled into the sun, or to deliver in the oven for disinfection (some daches advise even rinse sand before calcining). When laying in the boxes, sand is shrinking beet so that the fruits do not touch each other, and the sand layer was at least 2 cm on top.

Great method of storage beet - in the sand

• Well proven itself as a sip salt. Now this method finds more and more adherents. There are even tips to treat the beets with a strong salt solution and dry well, but still a larger number of dacms for the dry method from beginning to end).

• You can also "point" the beets of wood ash. Previous ashes sift.

• A lot of data and that nice results gives shocking beets with fern leaves.

• Reliably protects beets from diseases while storing dry collapse in mela Powder Before laying in boxes.

• You can store beets in peat, sawdust or chips.

• Well stored beets in polyethylene bags Capacity up to 35-40 kg. In this case, packets are not tied for free air access.

• If the beets are much, you can make olyonylene linersthat are separated by root from each other in containers.

• When storing beet in placer best option It will be installed a wooden grid on the floor to circulate air, and leaving the gaps in the walls of the roar.

• Minor root roots separately from large.

And in the next video Olga Platonov offers very interesting way Storage of vegetables with clay:

If the cottage is far outside the city, and there is no basement, you can quite successfully store roots and in the apartment. Of course, in these conditions, you should not expect that they will all live to spring, but for 3-4 months you can safely count.

• If you have balcony It is protected from frosts, and the temperature on it does not go down to minus indicators, beets there will feel perfectly until spring. Lay it in box with sand And prepare blankets on "every case".

• If there is a risk of frozen, then you can on the balcony Construction homemade cellar, insulation the box of the desired size from the inside of the foam and having been inside the box with a light bulb-low-hob for heating.

• Beets can be stored in the cabinet in the box with sand. The main thing is to watch the sand remain dry.

• You can keep it even in the room, in a dark place (under the bed, cabinet), away from heating radiators and heating devices. In low drawers, shipped by sand, sawdust or dipped into the clay solution and the dried beet may well be stored for 4 months, and this, you agree, quite a lot!

• Well stored beets and in a refrigerator, In parchment paper or food foil (each belling must be wrapped tightly!). In such a closure, it will be stored for up to 3 months without fading and keeping all taste.

• Interesting advice you can find in the article.

It turns out appearance Beets on the counter can suggest, with what advantages or disadvantages you will face, bringing a purchase home. Therefore, if you are not a gift-practitioner, these tips can be very useful.

From the next videos, you will learn how to choose beets in the store or on a vegetable bazaar and properly save it:

Summarizing the said, it can be argued: if you took into account all the beet "wishes", your crop quietly breaks "in good health" 7-8 months, that is, right before the harvest of next year.

And the whole winter from your tables will not go useful and delicious dishes With beetroot - and, and, and invigorating. And we very much hope that our advice will help you)

Although you grow beets, or not, it is often necessary to store it in the apartment. This is explained by the fact that this vegetable is always required in the kitchen. Bought beets during the year is completely unprofitable, if one's own is not grown, it is better to buy the right amount in the fall and store it until spring. Thus, it is possible to choose high-quality root and save on the purchase of expensive vegetables in the spring. With this calculation, you can save a significant amount of money and always have high-quality and delicious rooted roots at hand. Therefore, it is very important to know how to properly store beets in the apartment.

Features of storage beets in the apartment

Store the beets in the apartment is not easy, but considering the many years of experience of inventive owners, it can be done quite successfully. In order to qualitatively store beets in the apartment you need:

1. Just fold the beets in plastic bags or boxes and pour with sand roots. After that, the beet needs to be put in the cooler place in the apartment. Boxes can be put in the storage room, balcony doors, in the hallway or on the staircase. Although when room temperature Beets are not very well saved, for some time she can lie like that. Thus, the average roots (in diameter about 10 centimeters) can be saved for several months.
2. It is better to store beets on a specially equipped balcony. Today, many people who have country sitesBut they do not have a cellage almost all their harvest of vegetables and fruits stored on the balcony. To do this, there are special insulated boxes on a secure balcony. Also on the balcony build special insulated structures, which allow compactly store any vegetables and fruits throughout the winter. When designing such shelters, on the balcony, it is always necessary to take into account the weather conditions of the region in order to think about the ventilation and heating system in advance. With such storage, beets can lie until the middle of the spring, and in some cases before the beginning of summer.
3. Small beet volumes can always be stored in the refrigerator, but not more than one month. In the refrigerator, beets can be stored both in natural form and in frozen. But in the second case, the beet loses part of the vitamins and its taste.

Store beets in the apartment is not a simple task, but when applied for certain efforts it can be done quite successfully. The main thing is to choose the correct root for long-term storage and provide conditions as close as possible to optimal. It should always be remembered that the beets of medium sized is best preserved at a temperature of 2 degrees and relative humidity of about 85%. If you trust the neighbors and in the entrance do not go to other people's people, it is better to store beets offed by sand in boxes on the landing. In addition, it should always be remembered that the beet that is stored at room temperature may begin to deteriate after a certain time. Therefore, you need to examine it at least once a week and use damaged roots.

Beets are one of the most popular root crusts that greeted dackets on their garden sites. For proper storage Vegetables can be saved without loss all winter. The main thing is to provide right conditions, After all, helping with growing warmth and moisture during storage can harm. For storage, the beets will fit the cellar, and the basement, and the apartment.

Not all beet varieties are equally suitable for storage, and therefore, different root plates placed in the same conditions will have a different shelf life. To determine whether vegetables can be stored without loss all winter, it is worth paying attention to the grade footage.

The highest rates have the following varieties:

Diseases that reduce the guidance

Besides inappropriate variety storage time can reduce diseasesAgrowing roots during growth or storage. These include:

• gray rot, affecting damaged roots during storage;
• white rot, appearing on vegetables, which during the cultivation were "reconciled" with nitrogen;
• fusariosis and phomose, which can affect rooteplook during cultivation;
• rinch of the heart appearing in root crops grown in the soil in which there is a shortage of boron salts.

Cleaning and preparing root

To bete well preserved, it is necessary first of all to properly assemble the harvest. It is very important during this process not to damage the rootpode - do not scratch, do not cut and not craying thin skin. So that this does not happen, the harvest should be removed using forks or shovel. They need to gently raise roots, and then choose their hand or slowly pull, grabbing the tops.

It is also important and when the harvest is collected. First, it is necessary to do it before the first frosts, since the frozen (even partially) fruits are unsuitable for storage. Secondly, it is advisable to choose dry, sunny day for cleaning.

When all the roots are assembled, they need to dry. If the weather is solar, the beet is best to leave on the garden, it should be dried for 2-4 hours.

In the cloudy and the more rainy weather, roots should be dried in a well-ventilated room, scattering in one layer. In such conditions, drying will leave from 2-3 days before the week.

• carefully clear the roots from the pieces of land (not to wash);
• crop the tops, leaving the "tail" with a length of about 1 cm;
• remove side roots if the main root is very long, cut it, leaving 5-7 cm;
• sort the fruits, leaving for storage intact root corrupts is not larger than 12 cm in diameter.

The necessary conditions

There are several options for how to save beets for the winter and where to store it. And this can be done as in the premises - the cellar, underground, basement, on the balcony, in the country, in the refrigerator, dark roomAnd outdoors - pits and trenches. However, the second is more suitable for a warm climate. As for the storage indoors, the conditions of the room must comply with certain requirements:

• the flow temperature of beets from 0 to +3 ºС, at a negative temperature of the root, it is frozen, and at temperatures above +4 ºС will quickly start germinate;
• air humidity 90-92%;
• air circulation;
• darkness.

Methods for storing in the basement or cellar

Before deciding how to store beets in the basement or cellar, and send there beets, carrots and other vegetables, it is necessary to carry out some activities:

• remove old vegetables;
• weaken;
• bring rodents;
• to vent and dry the room;
• cove the walls of lime.

Storage beets for the winter in the basement or cellar You can organize in several ways.

Speaking about how to store beets in the cellar in winter, it is worth noting that whatever method is chosen, vegetables should be placed at an altitude of at least 15 cm from the floor to provide better air circulation.

How to keep in the country and in the apartment

If the beet was grown on garden plot The easiest way to keep it in the country, so the need for its transportation will disappear. For storage, a closed veranda and senia will be suitable. It is best to place root roots in the boxes with sand or salt. You can also fold vegetables in bags of less than 40 kg. If not tissue, but plastic bags are used, it is impossible to tie them so that the beets can "breathe".

If it is necessary to store beets in the apartment perfectly fit a glazed loggia or balcony. If the air temperature drops below the zero, the roots can be covered in closed sandboxes. If there is a risk of lowering the temperature, then the boxes are warming up - to strip foam on the inside and place a small light inside the drawer.

If there is no balcony in the apartment, then beets can be preserved in a dark room (for example, in Chulana). Roots should be placed in sandboxes or sawdust, pre-processing in a special way. For this, each vegetable is dipped into the clay solution and dried.

If the beets are a bit, it can be placed for storage in the refrigerator. The longest root roots will be stored if each of them is separately wrapped in parchment or foil. You can store beets and freezing chamber. To do this, it needs to be chopped on a grater and packaged by packages.

By placing beets for storing one way, you should not forget that once in 2-4 weeks it should be viewed and removing spoiled root roots. So vegetables will be able to survive much longer.

ATTENTION, only today!

If the crop has been successful, and the crust is already breaking away from vegetables, fruits and berries, the main thing is that it worries any hostess: how to save such wealth. We will tell how to save beets for the winter different waysSo that it remains a storage room of vitamins and minerals, and not just fiber. Even if you do not have a cellar or underground, you should not worry about the safety of roots to cold weather - they can save them in an ordinary urban apartment.

The benefit of beets for the body is difficult to overestimate, so no matter has any questions, why store it not only before the new year, but also before spring, because it is at that time we especially lack vitamins.

Winter beet varieties

Before laying a vegetable on winter long-term storage, we learn what kind of varieties have the greatest lastness:

• Mushroom flat a-473,
• Egyptian flat,
• Latest A-474, Mulatte,
• Salad
• Red ball
• Bravo,
• Incomparable
• One-built,
• Bordeaux 237,
• Cold-resistant
• Renova.

But the cylinder is best not yet grown in the cottages and sections at all. Whatever we do and no matter how preparing this variety to wintering, it will not lie, so we will take care of the issue of preservation in advance, even at the stage of sowing and grow the right root corners.

So, we already know which varieties will be able to survive the winter, but even need to be prepared. In independence, on the conditions of further detention, the tubers need to start correctly collect and sort.

Cleaning

They dig a beet in the second half of September into clear and dry weather - it will not only facilitate the work, but also will help to dry root root.

It is not necessary to rub the beets from the soil from the soil for the Botto - it hurts the skin and significantly reduce the shelf life. It is better to dig it, fashioning for a pitchfork or shovel together with the ground and only then getting.

Dried

If the weather is lucky, you can dry the beet right on the garden - we simply leave it for 2-3 hours under the sun.

Well, and if on the street is overcast and damp, we entered the club to the room and, laying out on a flat surface in one layer, carefully dry. Then they shake the nanish land.

In the case, if the beet is to dig in the rain, it will have to dry it at least 3-4 or even 7 days.

We remember that rinse the roots in the event that we want to provide them for long-term storage, in no case. The peel should remain a natural protective layer. It will prevent the emergence and development of putrefactive bacteria.

Pruning and sorting

• Only when the beet dries well, and we can cut it with a dry cloth, you can cut the tops. It is necessary to do it with a sharp knife, without climbing the stems at a distance of 1-1.5 cm from the edge.
• The roots are better not to touch at all, because the fewer cuts on the fruit, the more holistic, and therefore reliable will be a peel.
• It is at this time that it is convenient to sort - we postpone only those roots that do not have damage, nor dents, whose peel is completely homogeneous, without fungal lesions.
• It is best to sort out the beets in the tissue gloves - it will save your hands, and will additionally wipe the roots from the ground.

Now that everything is ready and enough for us with a sufficient number of tubers prepared, we will define how to preserve them with juicy and fresh for the winter.

Consider several most convenient and reliable storage methods at home.

Cellar

If you are a happy owner of the spacious and cool cellar, save the autumn and winter vegetables will not be difficult.

Depending on the amount of harvest, we use wooden boxes, baskets or polyethylene packages.

Storage in the substrate

Boxes fill with pure river sand or wood sawdust. And the one and another filler allows you to hold so necessary moisture inside the roots, and also prevents the appearance of mold on the surface.

Sand is best rinsed or rolled into the sun for disinfection.

Sleep the beets as follows: a layer of sand or chips in several centimeters, then a layer of vegetables, but so that one tuber does not touch with another. And so until the top of the box. The last layer should also follow the filler with a thickness of at least 2 cm.

Remember that large root roots are spoiled faster than small, so they are closer to the surface to eat them before.

You can also use peat, ashes, chalk, fern leaves, and even a cook salt.

Outdoor storage

However, if there is nothing at hand, it does not matter, the beets are perfectly kept by the usual embankment.

It is not worthwhile to add it right on the floor, since the free circulation of air even in a well ventilated room is carried out only at a height of 15-20 cm. It will be better to provide special shelves on which the roots will be decomposed.

The optimal summer house is considered to install a shallow wooden grid, on which the beets will lie. In this case, small and large root roots lay out on separate pages.

Storage in packages

Well stored beets in the cellar and in polyethylene packages. We choose them from a durable material, with a volume of 30-40 liters.

Layout clean dry beets, as usual, but not closed - leave the neck is wide, providing air exchange. Since in the case of the greenhouse effect, beets will definitely begin to mold.

Conditions for storage beets in the cellar

But all our tricks will be useless if the correct temperature and humidity will not be selected.

Temperature

Optimal, especially in the first couple of months of storage, is considered + 2 ° C, since at a higher temperature in beets begins to grow tops, which significantly reduces the shelf life.

The risk of frosts should not be. Any frozen beet will immediately make it unsuitable for further storage.

Humidity

It should be high, not less than 90% -92%. This will avoid the cutting of root.

Lighting

One of of most important conditions - No, whatever light at all. The room should be dark.

Underground or basement: how to store

Similarly, we save beets for the winter underground or basement. Observe the necessary conditions ventilation, temperature and humidity.

However, if you shipped with roots with caps or salt, there is no possibility, and in bulk packages there is no need, since the beets are not so much, we will resort to the proven method of all dachensons: we will lay out vegetables over already stored potatoes.

This method of preservation is considered optimal, since the underlying beet absorbs excessive moisture, and the potatoes, on the contrary, gives it - it allows you to install the perfect microclimate.

But what to do if at our disposal only urban apartmentand save the useful root root to the coldests?

Apply all the same conditions as in the cellar. In fact, it is not as difficult as it seems.

Balcony

If the balcony is glazed, we take boxes with a beet, shipped in chips or sand on it, or put the potatoes and put root roots on it.

To avoid freezing, cover all over top of blankets or old warm clothing.

Refrigerator

In the refrigerator, it is possible to keep the beets for no longer a month and in this case it should be wrapped in a polyethylene film.

Open air

Outside cooling, rootes can lie without loss no longer than 1-2 weeks. To do this, we remove them from the light - the kitchen cabinet with the doors or a dense dark package.

Storage of boiled beet

This method is good because after defrosting, we do not have to spend time for further thermal processing - Before us will be a ready-made dish. You can make a salad or use as a side dish, because the taste of the frosthed beet is practically not changing.

Boil the root roots until ready, cool and clean. Then grind any convenient way, depending on how we plan to use them in the future.

Three on a large grater or vegetable cutter, or grind in a puree with a blender.

We are packaged into polyethylene packages in small portions of 150 - 200 g or lay it immediately by the shelter. In the latter case, from a large piece of chopped frozen beet, you will need to cut off using a special knife without defining it.

Re-frost is extremely negatively affected on the taste qualities of the product, and on its nutritional properties.

Storage of crude beets

Carefully my roots, we clean them and grind, as in the previous method. You can put the finished beets in packages, and in plastic containers.

The first container is convenient because it is easy to cut off the small portions for the preparation of borsch, roast, etc. And in small containers you can freeze the portion of a certain weight. This is especially valuable for beginners who are still difficult to determine the amount of product on the eyes.

As you can see, there is nothing difficult or, all the more impossible, in the preservation of the crop to the cold. Now you know how to keep the beet for the winter, regardless of whether there is a well-equipped cellar or just freezer. The main thing is to enjoy the delicious and healthy vegetable among the winter and treat them relatives and friends.