Apple storage methods

The fundamental difference between autumn and winter apples from summer is that they become suitable for food in 2-6 months after removal. If you remove the apples on time, they are stored for a long time, without losing taste, and trees, which is very important, after removing the fruits manage to prepare for overgrown. Some people even change the design of a one-room apartment, in order to adapt it to the storage for the wintering of apples, read further what to learn how to properly save apples without prejudice to your personal space.

Before cleaning autumn and winter varieties, you need to prepare standard wooden plate boxes. Usually they are designed for 22-25 kg of fruits with tight styling. If apples are transported, then you still need chips and covers to score boxes.

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Autumn and early apple varieties are usually removed in the second and third decades of September, and this year, because of the hot summer, they will be ready for me.

Now the apples begin to be down. So that they are less injured, the priority circles should be released from weeds, and the soil disintegrate. Then the fallen fruits can be used for blanks. For the same purpose, lawn grass is mounted before cleaning fruits and put it around trees. However, still the Padalitsa is kept separately from the fruit filmed.

Autumn striped, Orlovskaya striped, charge, an Orlovian pioneer, cinnamon striped is cleaned first. Remove apples not at the same time, but from each tree several times. This allows you to first disrupt the most ripe and large fruits and only later the rest, which for 1-2 weeks will noticeably grow and take a color corresponding to the variety.

Immediately after collecting, apples sort over color and size. Intensively painted fruits are placed in a separate box, as they are worse stored, and they eate them first. Boxes with harvest are laid into a cool and enough wet cellar. An old russian storage method is interesting - on the glacier, where it is cold enough, and the air is wet. Apples in such conditions lie for a long time, without losing juits and taste.

Article author: Alexander Svetlov, Candidate / X. science