Why rotting onions and garlic in storage? The answers will help save the crop
Harvesting - it is certainly nice. I'm always happy to look at what were able to grow over the summer with his hands. But there is little to remove the onion and garlic. Now the task is to keep the bulbs, teeth as long as possible, to the essential ingredients were always on hand for the most favorite foods!
Home to attack harvested from the garden onions and garlic - rot. Look in a box or bag, and see: here, here side "hesitated" and has treacherously went dark, but there have garlic cloves fail... Let's understand why this is happening and how to minimize the threat π
Know the enemy in the face! The reason that cleaned for storage onions and garlic are starting to rot, one - work pathogens. Here and sooty fungus and fusarium and bacterial diseases - to transfer all this does not make sense.
All these byaki live in the environment. And, if as they say, the stars come together, the microorganisms begin to carry out their destructive activities. Ovoschevodu just have to find more and more struck with onions ...
Therefore, our task - to prevent the mini-epidemic in the home storage) It will help to make simple but effective steps:
- Carefully discard the harvest. All that looks doubtful folded separately and used for cooking in the first place. Bulbs with a frank decay, of course, immediately and without unnecessary sentimentality go in the trash!
- All that is selected for long-term storage must be thoroughly dry. Excess moisture - the main factor, the life-giving fungi and bacteria. When the harvest is dry, with his land will be easy to shake off.
- In the room where it will be stored onions and garlic, it is better to carry out general cleaning with disinfection. This is not the place to others the gifts of the garden, already beginning to rot. Enough a couple of days, to fungi and bacteria spread to new arrivals!
- One of the keys to successful storage - a well-functioning ventilation. Coming fresh air will not give microclimate "stagnant." By the way, if we are talking about climate, remember the maximum allowable air humidity - 75%. Therefore, if the room to store something somewhere is leaking, do not forget to maintain and promptly repair.
- And, most importantly.
- It is necessary to regularly inspect their bins homeland. Once something has started to rot - remove from a shared repository. Cut the problem area and can be used as food.
These simple rules will help keep the harvest. Yes, there is no magic wand. But the only thing that really works. Put a "Thumbs Up" if you like note-reminder) Thank you, my darlings. Also I recommend that you read: The scheme of planting winter garlic in 2 tiers: enables 1.5-2 times greater yield. By SAA specialists