How to store cabbage in winter?

The knowledge of gardeners and truck farmers was transferred from one generation to another. Now, unfortunately, a lot of information is forgotten, but what is available is quite often distorted. And to one of these "secrets", to relate knowledge of how to store cabbage in winter. The thing is that the science itself, how to store cabbage for the winter - is not so complicated. But how correctly to store cabbage, so that in winter it does not lose its useful properties - it's not so simple.

You probably already know that in order to keep the vegetables well in winter, they, first of all, need to be able to properly assemble.

How to harvest cabbage harvest?

1. The best time to collect cabbage is the end of autumn. Choose a nice sunny day and get to work.
2. To collect cabbage you will need a shovel. You need to dig up the cabbage with the root. Note that cutting off cabbage right in the garden is not recommended. It is better to excavate it entirely, and to clean the earth from the root.
3. Next, you need to touch cabbage. Too small, eaten by beetles, or with a rotten stump it is better to immediately eat (or cook sauerkraut). The remaining cabbage heads are folded under a canopy and let them lie down for about 12-20 hours. During this time, the vegetables will dry a little, and will be better kept in the winter.
4. After the cabbage dries a little, she needs to cut the cobs.

All! Preparatory work with cabbage at this stage ends.

Next, we'll talk about the rules of how to store fresh cabbage in winter

Temperature regime. The best place to store cabbage is the cellar. In such a room, as a rule, very high humidity, and low temperatures (but not below zero). But in a modern metropolitan area cellars are rare. Therefore, you can store vegetables in the basement, if there is a temperature in winter does not rise above 4-6 degrees.

Preparation of the room. For storage of vegetables, it is better to choose a room in which it will be clean and well maintained. The walls should not have mold and fungus (although the humidity should be high), and it should at least once a month to be ventilated.

Now consider ways how you can store for the winter cabbage

1. The easiest way is to put all the heads in a bag or box and store them in them. The disadvantage of this method is poor air access to vegetables, and they can deteriorate, especially if they were not well dried.
2. You can build a wooden platform, and spread the vegetables on it in the form of a pyramid. This ensures good air access, but the disadvantage is the inability to take one particular head (if, say, it is rotten, but not in the upper row).
3. A little troublesome way, but takes into account and excludes the shortcomings of the first two. Through the entire height of the cellar (cellar), fill the wooden shelves, and store cabbage on them in one row.
4. Another great way to store cabbage is sand. They can pour cabbage in a bag or box (as in the first method), or pour it on the floor with a slide, and dig it into cabbage.
5. An alternative to sand can serve old newspapers. You need to wrap each head in a newspaper, and after that you can fold at least in a box, at least in a pyramid, though in rows.
6. Modern housewives suggest also using food film instead of newspapers. Each head is wrapped around it and then lowered into the cellar. This option is also suitable for storing cabbage in the refrigerator.

How to store cauliflower in winter?

All of the above ways to store white cabbage, for color are not suitable. The best way to store cauliflower is the following. Each head is wrapped in a grid (newspaper), and suspended in a cool (about zero degrees) and well ventilated room.