Recommendations about potatoes and cabbage storage are provided in this article.
POTATOES. In the course of its storage allocate such periods: postharvest, (the medical – ripening), the main – deep rest, and spring (after the beginning of germination of tubers). The medical period lasts 2-3 weeks, during this period high temperature for ripening of tubers and curing of mechanical damages is necessary to potatoes. The temperature of 15-20 degrees, relative humidity of air of 85-90 % is optimum for this purpose.
Till the end of this period the temperature should be lowered to 10 degrees, in 40-60 days to finish to 2-5 degrees and to support at this level throughout all main period of storage. During the spring period (since the end of February) to slow down germination of tubers, temperature reduce on 1-3 degrees in comparison with the main period.
Keep potatoes in burtax, trenches or the cellars equipped zasekami. In a storage time the top layer of tubers can partially mist over and then their damage begins. That it to prevent, on the top layer of tubers sometimes put a layer of a beet or opylivayut chalk. The most radical way to prevent potatoes otpotevaniye – its storage in the superficial boxes combined in stacks which are blown by a wind.
CABBAGE. Amoger – 611, Kharkov, the Snow White, Capital, etc. is better to put the leveled intact heads of cabbage of the average size of winter grades. A mode of storage divide into two periods: cooling and the main. It is necessary to maintain temperature of about 0th degrees basically and relative humidity of 90-95 %. In a cellar the cabbage can be kept, having spread out it in chessboard order on racks or small piramidka, in boxes, containers or plastic bags.
(On magazine materials "the House. Garden. Kitchen garden").