Reveals the secrets of preserving fresh tomatoes in winter

If you failed harvest of tomatoes, you may be wondering how you can keep the fresh fruits before the New Year, and even until the spring.

Shops do not want to eat tomatoes because they taste good. Unveiling the secrets of storage.

Features

First of all, cut the tomatoes need to be deposited together with the stem. To break off must be just before the frost, in the afternoon, when there is no morning dew. Late-selected varieties. Tear green tomatoes or even at the stage of maturity breast (at the beginning of the acquisition of color).

Choose only healthy fruit without signs of disease, decay and damage.

For storage are the fruit of medium size. Juicy tomatoes and large for a long time will not be saved. It is better to choose with thick skins, malosemyannye. For example, the tomato cultivar "De bara" (fruiting until frost). But it is up to the spring will not lie. To this end, derived other more maturation tomatoes. For example, Class I and Class Long Keeper giraffe. About other tomatoes will be the link below.

How to deposit

The fruits are placed on trays or shelves. Pre-tray placed on plain paper. Fruit is placed pedicle up in a single layer. Every week, you need to check the tomatoes, remove the mature (at such ethylene tomatoes allocated, it accelerates the ripening of other fruits), or rotten, so that the infection does not spread over the fruit. Therefore it is desirable to disinfect laying tomatoes, wiping with alcohol or dipping in potassium permanganate solution and then thoroughly dried.

Conditions for storage

Store in a dark room is necessary because the lighting accelerates ripening. The temperature should be between +5 and +12 degrees. Relative humidity of about 80 percent. These storage conditions are suitable for the cellar, insulated balconies and loggias.

If you do it right, then the winter will have their own tasty tomatoes.

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