Secrets of harvesting vegetables for future use. How to store cabbage in a cellar?

Cabbage is a very useful and popular vegetable. Salads, borscht, soups, side dishes, snacks, which include this vegetable, are very tasty and nutritious. To grow a good harvest of cabbage on your site is not too difficult. But it must be able to properly save, so that the whole winter to cook dishes from fresh vegetables. This article will discuss how to store cabbage in a cellar. We will tell you a few reliable and effective ways of how to do it so that the heads do not spoil and save in themselves all vitally important for human health vitamins and trace elements until the very spring.

Before talking about how to store cabbage in a cellar, let's talk about the rules for collecting it. Their observance directly affects how long the head will be left unharmed.

For the preparation of this vegetable for future use choose medium late or late varieties of cabbage. Dig up the cabbage along with the root on a dry day. If you see that the heads are wet, do not rush them into the basement. Leave the heads dry in a dry place. On each plant near the head, leave two or three adjacent sheets. They will protect the heads from excessive evaporation and damage during carrying and laying.

How to keep cabbage in the cellar with whole heads until spring? When the whole crop is harvested, select whole dense heads of medium size. Cracked and very small fruits are used to prepare the billets by salting and canning. Well, further storage of cabbage in the cellar can be carried out in the following ways.

• Lay out the heads on a flat wooden surface (rack, table, shelf) with the sticks up. The heads must not touch each other.
• Hang the heads with the roots to the ceiling in the basement head down. This method is good because the cabbage is ventilated from all sides and does not lie.
• Save this vegetable until the spring can be, "planting" it in the sand. Pour it into a wide box or directly on the floor and moisturize. Bury cabbage in the sand roots down. From time to time, sprinkle the storage area of this vegetable with water.
• There is another way of storing cabbage in the cellar with whole heads. Each head (without root) is wrapped in paper and placed on a rack or wooden grate. Observe the state of the package: if it becomes wet, it means that the vegetable should be used as soon as possible. Dry heads can lie in this form until the spring.
• Polyethylene bags are another helper in saving cabbage. The selected heads are packed into new cellophane bags, squeezed out of them with air and sealed with an iron. Store this blank in the basement.
• Claying cabbage heads provides a long and high-quality savings of the vegetable. Dilute clay with water in a wide bucket and cover each head with this mass. Beforehand, tie the rope on the fagot. After the clay procedure, hang the cabbage root up to the ceiling in the basement.

Now you know the most reliable and trusted ways of storing cabbage in a cellar. These simple methods will help you to save the harvest of a healthy and tasty vegetable throughout the cold season.