Along with potatoes, carrots and tomatoes, onions form the basis of domestic cuisine. But it is correct to store onions so that it remains fresh and resilient for the longest time in winter, not every mistress will manage at home. To correct this shortcoming will help our article.
How best to store onions at home?
We'll figure it out for a start, on which the onion depends:
- Grade. For storage for the winter, late-ripening varieties that contain many essential oils and have a dense skin are ideal.
- Ripeness. It's no secret that only the fully ripening, but not ripe fruits lie well. Therefore, for preservation it is very important to harvest the onion harvest on time.
- Drying. After collection, the onion should be carefully dried and shaken off the remnants of the earth, which can become fertile soil for the causative agents of rot and diseases.
- Sorting. Before you can store the bulbs, you need to sort by sort and size, putting aside all the suspicious fruits: soft, broken, etc.
- Pruning. In the process of sorting, the stems and roots of the onion must be shortened, leaving the tails no more than 3 cm in length.
- Temperature and humidity. In the basement, these parameters should be +3 degrees and 75%, and in the apartment + 16 ... + 18 degrees and 50% respectively.
Where and how to store onions in the winter in the apartment?
In an apartment, the onion can be stored in a closet or a closet with good ventilation. You can place the harvest for storage in one of the following ways:
- hanging to the ceiling, braiding in braids or folded into nets or kapron tights;
- fold in small cardboard or wooden boxes;
- folded in wicker baskets.
But favorite polyethylene bags and bags for storing onions are not worth using, as moisture will accumulate in them, and the crop will rot quickly.