Each summer resident wants to get a rich harvest. Vegetables and fruits contain a whole gamut of trace elements and vitamins, but not everyone can save fresh vegetables for a long time. The tradition in the autumn was used to sour cabbage, so that in winter it is possible to eat delicious cabbage soup. But there are ways how you can keep cabbage fresh.
How to keep fresh cabbage in winter?
Cabbage is indispensable for the human body. There are many options for canning and cooking cabbage and ways to keep this healthy product fresh. If you want to keep cabbage in a fresh form, you need to remove it from the bed as soon as possible, even before strong frosts come.
For this it is necessary to select the most elastic and dense heads, which do not have external damages. Light heads, whose leaves are not located close to each other, quickly deteriorate and therefore are not suitable for long-term storage. If the leaves are loosely adhering to the surface of the head, they need to be removed. If possible, leave a few green leaves on the head. The main function of these leaves is to protect valuable white leaves from the negative impact of the storage environment.
Kocherzyzhku cut under the head of the head, it should not protrude more than one centimeter. Prepare the cabbage and put the cabbage in 3 layers, wrap in a packing household film for the products. Convenient film width of 30 or 40 cm. Before laying vegetables for storage, they must be dried for several hours. Then put the cabbage in the cellar. There are no special requirements for placing in the cellar heads. They can be expanded on existing shelves or suspended in grids.
The optimum temperature for storing cabbage is the temperature, from plus 1 degree to plus 5 degrees, so it will least be rotted, and will not lose its useful properties. Depending on the area of the cellar or the underground, you can choose a suitable option for storing cabbage. Effective is the way when the heads are hung upside down with the top green leaves with the roots left and a cob.
You can pour a little dry sand into the basement and put a head of a cabbage on the improvised "bed" with a cob, at a distance from each other. These methods, with the right temperature and good ventilation are suitable for long-term storage of vegetables.
Once a month, inspect cabbage, and remove the top decaying leaves, do not allow the lesion to spread to the head. After the spoiled leaves have been removed, wrap the cabbage and store it again. If several layers of cabbage have deteriorated, then you should not keep such a head, but just remove the spoiled leaves, rinse them and head for food. In spring, the procedure for inspecting cabbage and its rejection should be done at least 2 times a month.
Observing the storage conditions, cabbage can remain fresh all year round until a new crop. Long-ripening cabbage varieties are suitable for long-term storage. Cabbage can not be stored if the top leaves are frost-bitten.