How to prepare carrots for winter storage? You need to remove the carrots on time, that is before the first frost... Weeding before harvesting is done if the bed is heavily overgrown with weeds. An unripe vegetable is not as healthy as fully ripe... And its overexposure in the garden is fraught with excessive accumulation of sugars and it is more often attacked by mice and insects.
Read about on our website. When harvesting carrots sort by the size of root crops and by their damage.
Is being examined each carrot for rot and the presence of holes in it from the introduction of harmful insects.
Root crops are dug out with a shovel and carefully... Removing soil particles from them by hitting each other leads to cracking. How to properly prune carrots for storage in the winter?
The tops are trimmed to the head of the vegetable, and twice... The first time, its leaves are removed, and the second time they are cut below the upper edge of the head by 1 cm... This will prevent germination in winter and wilting.
How to prune carrots for storage - photo:
How to properly prune beets and carrots for storage? Have carrots intended for seeds, the tops are left long up to 2 cm... It is possible to rinse the root crop only if its head is heavily contaminated with moist soil. Digging it out of sandy soil, it is enough to shake off the dirt. Read more on our website.
Can I wash carrots for storage for the winter? Carrots are washed on harvest day. warm water without soap and other substances, then it is dried before placing on winter storage in air under a canopy and then kept at a temperature from 10 to 14 degrees Celsius heat. In this "quarantine" carrots are from 7 to 10 days, depending on the humidity. After that, it is sorted again by the presence of damage.
How to trim the tops of carrots for storage? An experienced gardener will share her way of preparing carrots for storage in this video:
Processing methods
How to process carrots for storage? Do I need to wash carrots before storing them? There are several ways to store carrots. Before this, the vegetable is processed potassium permanganate solution.
White rot that infects fruits, spreads quickly when stored in one container, which differs from black rot, which is not transmitted from root to root.
Processing with potassium permanganate of pure carrots is carried out in large capacity(basin or bath). Preparing dark purple solution and poured onto the vegetables laid there. Excerpt lasts up to 2 hours, then the carrots are removed and dried on thick fabric or tarpaulin.
This method of processing is effective only against the defeat of root crops by white rot and pests. Possibility of fruit spoilage black rot remains. The procedure for processing carrots before laying them for winter storage is as follows:
Tips for preparing root crops for storage in this video:
Storage rules
How to store carrots?
Before picking carrots intended for long-term storage need a week active watering... This will give it more ripeness.
The most acceptable temperature for storing washed carrots in winter - from 0 to +1 degrees Celsius. Above this limit, germination begins. In the garden, vegetables are damaged already at minus 2 degrees Celsius. You can find out about the possibilities in the garden from our article.
In the storage (cellar, basement), you can stack carrots (piles) without using containers, sprinkling the rows with sand. Define sand moisture simply - squeeze in the palm of your hand, the lump should not crumble. There are carrots in stacks heads out... O
Root vegetables must be stored so that they do not wither, rot or sprout., otherwise the carrots will lose their taste and useful qualities. Effective ways and recommendations of summer residents, will preserve the juiciness and freshness of the vegetable. Let's find out how and where to store carrots correctly.
In a private courtyard (dacha), most often there is basement is the best place for storing vegetables.
Knowing the subtleties proper preparation, carrots can lie inside basement until spring. Some manage to keep it until summer.
It all depends on the variety and preparatory work... The degree of preservation is influenced by the fact that purchased carrots are laid in the basement or grown in the garden.
V apartment conditions the root vegetable retains its qualities if place it on a balcony, where it is not cold, in winter or in a storage room. It also requires preparation and proper location.
In addition to preserving at home, options with harvesting root crops for future use are suitable here. For example, canning, drying or freezing.
A small amount can be simply placed in the refrigerator, where the roots can lie and not deteriorate for up to 2 months.
In the cellar
Traditionally, containers for storing carrots were not used, they simply poured a pile of sand and buried root vegetables in it. Now this method is often abandoned using plastic or wooden containers.
At the bottom of the box, so that sand does not spill out, paper or cellophane is covered. Paper will be preferred as it is breathable. A layer of sand is poured on top, level it, if stones come across, they are removed.
Lay the roots in an even layer, leaving small gaps so that sand can wake up there without problems.
Sprinkle sand on top of the carrot layer so that it is well covered. Everything is well leveled for the next layer of root crops.
Advice: instead of sand, root crops can be sprinkled with sawdust or onion husks.
Alternate layers as long as the height of the box allows... If necessary, you can store several boxes, it all depends on the number of carrots.
There is no need to cover the boxes except for sand. Read about how to properly prepare root vegetables in the material below.
On the balcony
Before the onset of cold weather, the safety of vegetables can be ensured even on non-glazed balconies. but better if there is a balcony, protected from moisture and sun where the temperature in winter is 0 - 1 ° C.
You need to store carrots in boxes, restoring the layers with newsprint... Cover the top of the box with cellophane and a cloth, the roots will have enough moisture and coolness.
Tip: instead of paper, you can use sand as in the basement version.
Freeze in the freezer
Almost all vegetables are preserved by freezing, carrots are ideal for this purpose... This method will save time on cooking, because the vegetable will be peeled and chopped.
Before placing inside the freezer root vegetables need to be cleaned and rinsed under running water... You can freeze carrots in different ways:
- cut into cubes, rings or strips;
- grate or grind with a combine;
- use a Korean carrot grater;
- cut into cubes or whole.
The cutting method is selected individually based on personal preference. For example, grated is suitable for frying, and in cubes and whole for carrot puree.
Chopped vegetables are laid out in plastic bags or sealed containers for freezing. Put inside freezer or a freezer compartment. The only negative when frozen is that vegetables lose 65-80% of their usefulness.
Important: you can store in this way until the next harvest, this method will never fail.
Is it possible to store in the apartment in the refrigerator
Inside the refrigerator root crops are able to maintain their value and shape for a fairly long period.
Carrots will feel comfortable on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator if you follow some rules:
- Prepare root vegetables correctly, in no case wash them.
- Washed carrots are not suitable for long-term storage. If it is washed, dry it, place it in a plastic bag. Close it hermetically, then moisture will remain inside.
- In the case of unwashed vegetables, dry them. Enumerate so that there is no rot and damage. Put a plastic bag inside and tie it so that there is no air access.
- For storing vegetables, a special niche or shelf at the bottom of the refrigerator is usually used.
When you need to take carrots out of the refrigerator, the package is untied, taken as needed and closed back. In this case, you should see if there are any spoiled root vegetables inside.
If everything is in order, don't worry. If putrefactive damage is found, it is better to process or freeze such carrots.
In packages at home
If you put root vegetables inside a bag and store it in an apartment, if the vegetables are of high quality, they can lie like this for 2-3 weeks.
but there is no guarantee that they will not start to deteriorate... The top may look good, but the inside of the carrots will start to rot.
With this method, you need to regularly check the packages for putrefactive changes.
How to prepare carrots for storage
The preparatory moment is the most responsible, on what and how the vegetable will be stored, the terms of its preservation depend.
To avoid mistakes it is worth adhering to strict rules:
- Never wash vegetables before storing them. An exception is the freezing of vegetables.
- Each root vegetable is carefully examined, slightest damage are rejected. Such root vegetables are best used for harvesting.
- The sorted vegetables are lightly dried in the wind. It is not necessary to overdry and keep in the sun for a long time. In this case, the carrot can be turned from one side to the other.
- Store as described above with sand or pack in bags.
- If you use bags, they must be strong and airtight. The bags can be tied or tapered.
Cleaning and preparing carrots for storage:
The preservation is influenced by the variety and the conditions under which the cultivation took place.... If the season is rainy or watered heavily, it may rot.
It so happens that purchased vegetables are heavily treated with chemistry - this also affects the preservation.
The best varieties for storage: Shantane, Moscow winter, Vitamin, Karotel.
Storing carrots is quite a hassle for summer residents... However, this is difficult to achieve without proper conditions. If done correctly, it will remain juicy and fresh until the next harvest!
Before cleaning the cellar, the carrots must be removed from the bottom and soil and dried thoroughly on fresh air... Washing your vegetables is optional.
How to store carrots in crates
Place in a wooden or plastic box about 2 cm of sand, coniferous sawdust, onion peel or moss. Whichever filler you choose, it must be dry.
Spread the vegetables on top in one layer at some distance from each other and cover them with some of the filler. Alternate layers until you run out of carrots.
agroknow.ru There should be a thick layer of filler on top.
How to store carrots in bags
How to properly store carrots in an apartment
At home, you will have to resort to help and freezers. There you will be able to preserve the vegetable for many months.
How to store carrots in the refrigerator
Wash the carrots thoroughly and scrub with a sponge or brush so that no dirt remains. Place vegetables on a towel and dry thoroughly.
Cut off the ends of the dry carrots on both sides. Leave the vegetables for a while to dry out the cuts.
Place the carrots in a tight plastic bag, release excess air, and tie tightly. For security, you can put a bag with carrots knotted down in another bag and also tie it tightly.
Store the bag of carrots in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator. Condensation may form inside the bag during the first few days. But after a while, the drops of water will disappear.
How to freeze carrots
Wash the carrots thoroughly and dry well. Grate it or cut it into small strips, circles or cubes. Divide vegetables into bags or plastic containers.
To save space, the carrots in the bags can be spread out so that they are flat.
Close containers or tie bags tightly, releasing excess air from them. Place the blanks in the freezer.
People are very fond of carrots, and pests adore it. Diseases are just waiting for the right time to attack the root crop.
Every year, during harvesting, transportation and storage, about 30 percent of the grown carrot crop is lost. It happens that the losses reach 60 percent, and sometimes even 100 percent. The main damage to the carrot crop is caused by diseases during the storage period. A root crop with mechanical damage is less than the rest. Any cuts and cuts during thinning, loosening, weeding, harvesting, haulm trimming, and transportation can introduce infection. Therefore, you need to select only ripe, whole and healthy fruits. Carrots should not be stored in a warm place immediately after the garden. It should be gradually, in 1-2 days, cooled and then removed. At what temperature should carrots be stored? Optimally - 0-1 degrees with a relative humidity of 90-95%. At the same time, the storage for the harvest should be prepared in advance.
In about a month, it must be dried, ventilated and disinfected. For the latter, you should take a 2% solution of bleach (1 kilogram per 100-150 square meters surfaces) and bypass all the walls of the vault. A couple of weeks before harvest, the walls should be whitewashed with milk of lime. Here you will need 2-3 kilograms of slaked lime, as well as about 300 grams copper sulfate for 10 liters of water. About half a liter of solution will take per square meter.
The safety of carrots depends not only on their maturity, but also on the ratio of glucose and sugar in it. If there is no infection in the root crop, then it is poorly stored due to the variety, poor conditions of keeping and storage. The best preserved carrots of the canonical form (varieties Valeria, Nesravnennaya, Shantane, Moscow winter). And the fastest spoils - with shortened roots (Prague carotel). Early autumn and prolonged spring shortens the growing season of the root crop. Early varieties can accumulate fiber and sugar, so they will last longer. And late-ripening carrots, on the contrary, accumulate vitamin C and organic acids. Therefore, it is not stored for long.
However, any carrot can be easily injured. It quickly loses moisture, so mechanical damage should be avoided during cleaning. It is better if the tops are mowed a week before harvesting, and 2-centimeter petioles remain.
How to store carrots properly
The storage conditions for carrots directly depend on where you are going to store them. Of course, each place has its own pros and cons. We will tell you how to create conditions and prepare the room for storing carrots.How to store carrots in the cellar
Freshly dug root vegetables should be folded in a bunch, protected from the sun and ventilated. Moreover, you need to leave small lumps of earth on the roots. Next, the carrots must be quarantined for a week and a half at a temperature of 10-14 degrees. And then spoiled fruits should be excluded from the harvest. Remember that carrots will not tolerate freezing and will freeze even at a temperature of minus one degree, and when thawed, they will start to deteriorate. Therefore, it is better to store large stocks of carrots in a cellar or basement, and in plastic bags. They must be installed vertically and the neck must be left open to avoid condensation. 
Will fit and old way storage in boxes or piles. There, the carrots should be sprinkled with sand. And add chalk or slaked lime from it. In outer layer the carrots should be laid with their head out. And one more important note. When the air temperature is above 5 degrees Celsius, the carrots will begin to sprout. This process can be stopped only by lowering the temperature in the storage to 0 degrees. In early ripening carrots and unripe carrots, flower buds begin to form even under such conditions. Means, different varieties needs to be stored in different ways.
If your storage is hermetically sealed, then you need to reduce losses from the respiration of the root crop, suppress germination, as well as the development of pathogenic microflora. This can be done using carbon dioxide (dry ice or a bottle for making carbonated water is suitable). However, one must be careful here, as an overdose will decompose pectins.
How to store carrots at home
And how to store carrots at home if there is no cellar or basement? In the apartment, a limited amount of root crops can be packed in plastic bags and put in the refrigerator. Many townspeople put carrots in cardboard boxes, put them on stairwells(or in the vestibules). The air temperature there is much lower than at home, however, the humidity is also different. As a result, this storage method helps the carrots stay fresh for up to several weeks. - Two weeks before digging, the carrots of the garden should be watered with warm water. This is especially true in dry weather. In this case, the roots will be juicy. And after all the carrots have already moved to the surface of the earth, they need to be washed with a brush, cut out the passages of the carrot fly (they may not be there), cut off the tail and top. Then, for a couple of days, let the root crop dry and put it in dense plastic bags, sprinkling with sawdust. Sprinkle the top layer with a couple of handfuls of onion peels and take the bags to the cellar. In this case, the bags must be open.Before storing the carrots, they need to be processed (simply sprayed) with a 7% onion extract. It is prepared as follows: 200 grams of onion is poured hot water and is infused during the day. After such exposure, the carrots must be thoroughly dried.
How to store carrots properly
The following tip will help keep carrots on the shelves. Long pins or brackets should be driven into the wall in the cellar in pairs every 12 centimeters, and put on them wide boards... The first shelf should be one meter from the floor. On each board, you need to spread out the root vegetables fairly freely.
You can also store carrots in a chatterbox. To do this, each root crop must be dipped in a chatterbox with clay and dried. Until spring, each carrot will be exactly what it was dug up. True, this method is rather laborious.
We choose a place on the floor in the cellar, disinfect and pour about 5 centimeters of sand there. We put roots on it in rows. Moreover, they should not touch each other. As soon as the first layer is laid out, sprinkle it with sand and lay out the carrots again. We repeat several times.
You can store carrots for a long time and in bulk. In boxes, and better away from apples.
You can also put root vegetables in dense wooden boxes or packages with a maximum of 5 kilograms each. A corrugated box will also do.
Chalk can be used as a "preservative". Spray or immerse the carrots in a 30% chalk slurry and then dry. Chalk dusting is also worth trying. 150 grams per 10 kilograms of carrots.
We hope, with the advice of the editors of the site, your harvest will remain fresh even after the most severe winter!
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Carrots are a very useful and widespread vegetable. Orange crunchy root vegetable is a real treasure of vitamins and microelements necessary for health and beauty. In summer and autumn, we can enjoy the fresh fruits of carrots directly from the garden, the benefits from them at this time are maximum. But with the onset of cold weather, a problem arises: how to store carrots at home in winter in order to preserve the beneficial substances contained in it?
Storage methods for carrots
To store carrots, you need a certain temperature regime and humidity, moreover, a stable temperature is preferable, without fluctuations and fluctuations. V winter period An ideal microclimate for storing root crops can be created only in the cellar, it is + 1- +3 degrees with an air humidity of 90-95%.
Carrots can be stored:
- in wooden boxes in the sand;
- in coniferous sawdust;
- in a clay chatterbox;
- in plastic bags.
Sometimes summer residents also use alternative storage methods, for example, they make piles. First, the carrots are prepared for storage, the tops are cut off, the roots are dried. They are laid in a small depression in the ground, covered with sawdust or straw. From above, the pile is covered with earth. A pipe or vent must be installed, which prevents the appearance of condensation in the storage. With this storage method, the carrots are juicy, as if only from the garden.
The best varieties of carrots for storage for the winter are Shantane, Losinoostrovskaya, Vitamin and others. All of them are late-ripening varieties, have an oblong conical shape and firm flesh. Early ripening varieties are best used for making salads and pickling cabbage.
Interesting! Carrots were originally grown for their spicy green leaves and seeds. In Europe, the root crop appeared around the 13th century. In terms of prevalence in the world, carrots occupy one of the first places among huge amount vegetables. She is equally loved in Africa, Australia and Europe.
How to store carrots in an apartment
If there is no basement or storage room, the yield of vitamin root crops can be saved in the apartment. We have already found out at what temperature to store carrots, from this it is clear that you can store a root crop on the balcony in cool, but not frosty weather. It is recommended to hang a thermometer near the box with carrots to see the real air temperature. And if the temperature drops below -1 degrees, it's time to take vegetables more warm place or cover the drawer tightly.
Storing carrots in the sand on the balcony
To store carrots on the balcony you will need wooden box... Such a box is easy to choose in a hardware store, but you can make it yourself from scrap materials or adapt an old kitchen cabinet for it.
For home storage carrots, a vegetable box with vertical loading, that is, the door must be on top. It is better to choose the box or make it deep enough to lay out the carrots in rows and sprinkle them with sand. To build a box with your own hands, you need to choose a place on the balcony for storing vegetables, calculate the size of the future container. Put together a frame from boards, plywood or a plate, fix the door on top.
How to prepare carrots for storage in the sand
For storage, you need to choose dense, even root crops without damage, wormholes and greenery. Tops and upper part carefully cut the vegetable with a knife. Clean root crops from the ground, but do not wash, dry in a cool room. Prepare clean sand at the rate of: 2-3 buckets of carrots 1 bucket of sand.
How to properly lay carrots in the sand:
- Pour a small layer of sand on the bottom of the box.
- Lay out a row of carrots. It is more practical to lay out the roots in a checkerboard pattern, the tail - the nose. Vegetables should not touch each other.
- Cover a row of carrots with sand, sprinkling the gaps between the roots.
- Alternate rows of carrots and sand, the last row is sand.
Storing carrots in a cardboard box
With the help of newsprint and an ordinary cardboard box, you can save root crops in the apartment for several weeks. Gently fold dry carrots into cardboard box, shifting each root crop with newsprint. Put the closed box in a cool utility room... A pantry or balcony is fine. The disadvantages of this method are that the carrots are stored for a limited time, then wither and dry out.
Storing carrots in bags for the winter
If there is no way to store carrots on the balcony, you will have to save them in the refrigerator in bags. Here is the answer to the question: whether to wash the carrots before storage, is unequivocally affirmative. Clean, dried root vegetables in plastic bags stored better than unwashed. Soil in a humid environment encourages mold and odors. And clean dry carrots, packed in bags, can be stored in the vegetable compartment for 1-2 months. The disadvantages of this storage method are the small volume of vegetables, as well as the need to constantly review the products for the appearance of rot. Rotten specimens infest nearby roots and rot spreads very quickly in the bag.
Important! When laying carrots in plastic bags, keep the vegetables cool and dry. Warm roots in plastic bags form condensation, which can provoke the development of pathogenic flora and rot.
Freezing carrots
Freezing carrots - very convenient original way. Preparatory activities require time consuming, but then the hostess always has a carrot ready to eat at hand. So, peel, wash and dry the carrots. Then grate or cut into slices - whoever likes it. Pack in small bags for easy use or storage containers food products... Carrots frozen in this way are used to prepare vegetable side dishes and soups.