Good afternoon, my reader. Tomatoes are not subject to long-term storage. But you can try to keep them at least until the end of the first winter month, so that in the New Year you have our own fresh vegetables on the table.
Tomatoes. (Photo used by standard license © ogorodnye-shpargalki.ru)
The period of preservation of tomatoes depends on some important factors.For efficient and continuous storage of vegetables, you first need to properly collect them. Collect the fruits from shrubs need to be a day. Start cleaning when all dew will come out with fruits. It is not recommended to postpone the harvest time to cold weather. For dissatisfied tomatoes, low temperatures are degradable, approximately 4-5 ° C, as vegetables lose the ability to ripen on the bushes.
Want to save your crop longer, follow these rules:
- Bring vegetables and postpone for storage completely healthy tomatoes. They should be missing any damage: dents, cracks, stains, scratches - as they are agencies for infections. And if at least one sick tomato appeared, he will threaten for the whole crop.
- For long storage, fleshy fruits with a dense thick shell, which have medium bed and late periods of ripening should be used. Such varieties include New Year's and de Barao, as well as Long Keper and Giraffe.
- Spread the vegetables in maturity stages. All different times of ripening and the duration of the footage. Never keep overwhelmed tomatoes.
- Share small with large. Big ripen faster, but they have a shorter storage period than small. The vegetables with a mass of approximately 60 g are kept longer.
- Separate ripened from those that you decide to save. Yes, and in the neighborhood there should not be some fruits, such as pears and apples.
There is no definite answer to this question. So choose or not, choose yourself.
Tomatoes. (Photo used by standard license © ogorodnye-shpargalki.ru)
So you make the right choice, listen to these two tips:
- Before use, get vegetables from the refrigerator, and let them warm to room temperature.
- If tomatoes lie for about a week indoors after you take them from the refrigerator, the fragrance will return at least partially.
Not going to save long, better not put them in the refrigerator. A suitable storage location will be a vegetable basket or a refrigerator door, the temperature is higher there.
Tomatoes are perfectly stored in the wine cellar, where the temperature is about 10-14 ° C.Take advantage of:
- Vegetables wipe with alcohol or manganese solution.
- The bottom of the plastic or wooden tank is made of matter absorbing moisture. Capacity should be with holes.
- Put tomatoes with one layer. Between them, pour sawdust, straw or put another layer of paper. From above, you can place the fruits into one layer.
- All the vegetables are sorted by sawdust and leave for safety in a cool, well-ventilated room.
Such fruits can be saved until January.
- Wipe their alcohol, dry.
- Each fruit wrap dark paper. Fold them with one layer, each tomato must lie separately, without touching others.
- From above, cover the container straw and place it in the ventilated room.
For this, such places are suitable:
- Paul under bed or sofa.
- Loggia or balcony. If you have glazed loggia or balcony, you can use them as storage facilities. Watch that they do not get sunlight.
- Under the bathroom. Watch the degree of moisture and do it as often as possible.
First method
Fold clean, dried tomatoes in a sterilized container, pour with vegetable oil. Plug with a sterile metal cover.
Tomatoes. (Photo used by standard license © ogorodnye-shpargalki.ru)
Second way
Put vegetables in the jar, fill them with acetic salt liquid. Instruct in 8 parts of water vinegar and salt (1 part). Banks roll up.
Third way
Cook banks and powder mustard. Fold vegetables into one row, pour mustard on top. Put the paper from above, then another layer of tomatoes. And again - mustard powder and paper, fill the container in such a way, roll and store in a cool place.