Ways to store winter squash up
Zucchini. Vegetables are not only delicious, but also quite useful. Zucchini can be cooked jam, they can be put out and make a stew or a roast. However, the harvest will not be able to eat onions, even if the effort. I, for example, zucchini grows much. Before learn about how to store onions, I simply froze. However, the freezer is not that big, so I found me a suitable method of storage.
About two years ago I wanted to try to preserve fresh zucchini, before reading these articles with tips and advice. So, I did it, zucchini remain the same as if they had just cut. Therefore, until the new year we have fresh zucchini, and even a little later.
I want to share some tips and techniques with you.
Tip 1. Selects zucchini correctly. That is, zucchini variety should be suitable for winter storage. For example, I grow and the aeronaut Aral the F1, they are perfectly stored. In addition, it is necessary to choose the zucchini without damage and with thick skin. Seeds in pubs should be fine, a special variety grown for this purpose.
Tip 2. Timely harvest. It is impossible to over-ripe zucchini. It is best to take to store zucchini the size of which is not more than forty centimeters. Zucchini should be cut from the stem, about five centimeters.
Tip 3. You must clear the squash from the ground without damaging the skin. Wash zucchini NOT! If you want to dry, then just put in a sunny place on the day.
Tip 4. If possible, zucchini be stored in place at a temperature of less than ten degrees, but more than five. Perfect cellar or pit. You can of course store and at home in a cool place (not near the battery and not in the refrigerator), but they persist only for a couple of months.
Tip 5. It is best to lay the storage location of the straw and put upward zucchini.
Tip 6. It is necessary to make the zucchini do not touch each other. For example, you can either make a partition, or wrap the fruit in paper.
Tip 7. There is also an unusual way. Each fruit to put in a nylon stocking and tie up to the ceiling. I'm in such a way has not yet been used. So zucchini can persist for three to four months.
I prefer to store courgettes follows. Placed in a wooden box straw and lay it on top of zucchini, all this is lowered into the pit. Before the new year zucchini accurately maintained, and perhaps longer.
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