Stored vitamins: proper storage of apples in the winter

How to keep fresh apples until the spring

Anyone who has a garden knows that all the apples from the shop on all fronts lose apples grown with their own hands. In this article we will explain what they are doing, participants FORUMHOUE, so all winter to eat fresh apples from her garden.

Content:

• The shelf life of apples winter varieties.
• Which varieties are suitable for long-term storage.
• How to create the conditions for storage of apples at home.

Shelf life of apples

How long will the apple store, depending on storage conditions, whether gardener correct shot an apple from a tree, on the degree of maturity of the fruit and its quality, but most importantly - by keeping quality. All grades are characterized by different groups keeping quality:

• summer varieties - no more than 3 weeks (some are beginning to spoil in a week);
• autumn varieties - 1-2 months;
• winter varieties - three months before the next harvest.

In many regions, the winter varieties ripen only in the maturation months after removal, but in the winter they have no price.

Natali_R

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Do not deprive yourself of pleasure to eat a ripe apple in winter. Winter varieties even in the apartment if stored properly prolezhat long!

All winter varieties of apples, which are suitable for long-term storage can be divided into groups:

Apples and periods of storage

By rannezimnim varieties popular with our summer visitors and gardeners include:

• Antonovka ordinary (many attributed it to the autumn varieties);
• Amur sweet;
• Winner;
• Pepin saffron;
• Parmen winter gold.

vosaduli

Member FORUMHOUSE

Antonovka is only stored until the New Year, then okrahmalivaetsya. But the flavor thin enough sugar, and a goose with apples - is only Antonovka.

average winter varietiesWho have successfully grown gardeners FORUMHOUSE:

• Sic;
• Lobo;
• Anis Gray;
• Antonovka dessert;
• Rennet;
• Synaptic Orlov;
• peaceful;
• cherished;
• Cortlandt.

Olga73

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Like late variety Lobo cochnoe sourly-sweet. This year on March 8 ate fresh apples, as if just from the tree.

Pozdnezimnie grade:

• North Sinap;
• Altai velvet;
• Altai mottled;
• Climber;
• Kuban scarlet;
• Reinette Orleans.

Kostya_

Member FORUMHOUSE

North Sinap grows I already 30 years old and all my life I thought that my grandfather nonsense some planted, t. To. About winter apples learned only two years ago. This year through May were in the fridge!

On FORUMHOUSE is an extensive discussion apple varietiesWhere you can find information about virtually every grade.

When and how to pick apples winter varieties for storage

Depending on variety and growing region, apples for bookmarks for winter harvested from September to November in the stage of technical maturity, not the consumer. Full maturity they need to achieve in the longer storage time. If you skip this point, or to collect the apples before, it will shorten their storage life.

How to determine that it is time to gather winter apples

• Apples still very hard and sour. Sweet and fragrant, they will, after lying for some time in the boxes.
• The seeds have darkened and turned brown.
• The fruits reached their size.

toliam1

consultant FORUMHOUSE

With winter apples - like wine in a barrel. At first, the taste improves, gains new shades, "bouquet", and then aging.

I need to pick apples, observing a few rules:

• Do not remove the apples from the tree in the rain, fog, and so on. N. Day of harvest should be dry.
• In any case it is impossible to tear off the stalk.
• It is forbidden to throw apples even from a small height - each is carefully packed in a box. Properly remove the apples from lower branches first, and then move to the top.
• You can not wipe with apples bloom.

If you do not water the apple during fruit ripening, keeping quality of apples grow.

Sorting apples before storage

For storage only apples are laid without damage, dents, not wormy. Every apple should carefully examine and check it for any scratches, wounds, everything was in order with the stem (if no stalk, the fruit will soon be spoiled due to fungal diseases). The big plus is preserved on the apple bloom.

All the apples that have passed through the complicated selection, you can send for recycling, Is the use of their storage is not. During the selection of recommended immediately to sort apples by size. Large apples are more mature than the average and small apples of the same variety, during storage, they emit large amounts of ethylene. Ethylene accelerates ripening of fruit remaining, and this can not be allowed.

Terms and conditions for storage of winter apples

The optimum temperature for the storage of apples considered winter -1 - +4 degrees. Moisture thus should be high, 85-95%. Ideal conditions can be set up in the basement, a well-stocked apples in the refrigerator, cellar (but not together with potatoes), and even on the balcony, a special box, thermos.

Methods for winter storage of apples

Apples in paper

Excellent feedback was a way to store apples wrapped in paper. Every apple should be carefully wrapped in paper (suitable for baking paper and so on. P.) And put in a drawer layers of the stem up. The box is sent to the basement, refrigerator, and so on. N. Ideally, the apples must be a separate room, so they are kept better than vegetables, root vegetables, tubers - especially with potatoes.

Electradacha

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Covered Apples in neotpalivaemom house kept better than in the basement.

Some members of our portal keeps apples in the inspection pit garage, with the onset of frost close them, but "when negative and gets to" carry into the cellar.

stratification apples

If the volumes are close to industrial apples, loiter and every once, you can put them into the box, sprinkling each layer of a bulk material:

• buckwheat husk,
• sawdust,
• moss,
• onion peel,
• chips (but only on the hardwood).
• a mixture of clean, dry sand and wood ashes.

sf400

Member FORUMHOUSE

Antonovka in winter so maintain a layer of hay, apples layer.

Apples alternating way: on the bottom of the box is poured bulk material layer, then a layer of apples, etc., the last layer - the loose material... All in a box should be 2-3 layers of apples. Apples in storage should not touch, so you can make your own hands dividers made of cardboard or other dense material, so that each piece of fruit was in his cell.

Apples in the package and in the land

For this method to the fall should dig a trench 40 cm deep. When frost will come first, about -5 degrees without damage strong apples were placed in polyethylene bags (about 5 kg each) and tying. At the bottom of the trench layer laid anti-mouse (spruce paws and m. P.), Top packages with apples. Fall asleep trench ground and shovel a pile of leaves on top for extra protection from freezing. Apples will be kept fresh until spring.

summing up

Be sure to plant in his grade winter varieties of apple - the fruit of them, moreover, the most delicious and flavorful. And observing simple rules, you can have your apples until the spring.

Read our article on how some gardening work waiting for us in September. Find out, how to cut the brambles. Watch a video about how to prepare the garden for winter.

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