Let’s be lost carrots

Carrots at storage are very sensitive to temperature increase. About ways of long storage of carrots there is a speech in article.

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Carrots at storage are sensitive to temperature increase, especially in an initial stage of storage. Already at +4 ° it starts to sprout and there can be centers of white decay (sklerotiniya) of carrots. Skilled truck farmers know that this illness as a fire, as a peculiar gangrene. It is necessary to decay at least to one root crop, at once the orange-white medley of decaying carrots around is formed.

Often truck farmers at first clean late cultures, put them on temporary, and then put on long winter storage.

Air temperature from About to +1 °, and relative humidity – 90-95 percent will be the best conditions for storage mor­kovi in the winter.

As it is better to put carrots in storage, the consensus isn’t present. Often store it in dense boxes in capacity of 15-20 kg, powdering from above with a small layer of sand or the easy earth. Humidity of sand should be such that at its compression in a hand water didn’t exude, but the lump kept the form. It is possible to establish the filled boxes a stack to 2 m in height.

Carrots don’t wither and is well stored in small stacks on a floor or racks. Thus them stack ranks and each row pour damp sand a layer of 2-3 cm, and root crops place heads outside.

To prevent development of diseases in sand, it is quite good to add in number of 1-2 percent from its volume ground chalk or well slaked lime.

The glinovaniye or lime application of root crops gives positive results. For this purpose them immerse in the smetanoobrazny clay talker or limy milk, and then dry at the strengthened ventilation. When the remained layer which has (stuck) on root crops of clay or a lime dries, it forms a thin crust which protects carrots from withering and distribution of diseases.

Carrots are perfectly stored in open polyethylene bags or packages: to fill not to top bags, without fastening, and to establish vertically. In them the increased humidity of air and concentration of oxygen, carbon dioxide which suppress development of diseases are created, safety of root crops thereby raises.

It is necessary  to mean that if you will casually close a bag, in it carbon dioxide quickly collects, the content of oxygen falls, and in 2-3 weeks carrots completely will decay.

Council to truck farmers: not less often than once a week examine stored carrots and surely delete the slightest centers of white decay.

Demand attention and tubers of early grades of potatoes which already started to sprout. Sprouts should be broken off. The white raid on the top part of root crops of a beet of a dining room also specifies that they start to be ill, they too should be separated from bulk of root crops.

(On Hozyain newspaper materials).