In a note recommendations about cleaning of root crops (carrots, a beet, a radish, a garden radish, etc.) are made
When cleaning root parsley, a radish, a radish of winter grades, a celery shake off the earth the dug-out root crops and at once cut off a tops of vegetable. Low a scrap of a tops of vegetable with destruction of points of growth it is made at the root crops which have not been intended for the seed purposes.
Parsley, celery, mangold, fennel, melissa can be dug out with an earth lump to arrange on a window sill an autumn and winter kitchen garden.
Beet should be cleaned in dry weather, it is better – manually or by means of a garden pitchfork. Remember, at root crops damages badly begin to live. It is impossible to cut off tops of root crops, to leave better than a chereshka in length 0,5-1 see.
Root crops of carrots transfer short-term fall of temperature on a soil surface to a minus 50C, but dug out don’t suffer frosts, are very sensitive to mechanical damages.
Before a bookmark on storage it is not necessary to wash the dug-out root crops – it accelerates development of diseases. Also remember that on Fedot (24.09) any summer came to an end, from this day the root doesn’t grow in the earth, and feels chilly.
(On the materials "Selyansko§gazeti").