Pear is a fruit tree, giving incredibly tasty, fragrant and juicy fruits. To date, there are several thousand varieties of pears and they determine the duration of storage of this fruit. How to store pears for the winter - in this article.
How to store pears at home?
It must be said at once that for long storage until the spring, only winter varieties are available in fresh form, for example, Armetovskaya winter, Kirghiz winter, Dekanka winter, etc. Summer varieties are dried before storage, but winter crops are collected before final ripening, allowing they "get" in the process of storage. If you harvest the harvest when it finally ripens, then there is a great risk that the fruit will rot while lying down, and then until the spring, "none" will survive.
Ways of storage:
- Those who are interested in how to store a winter pear for the winter, you can answer that for these purposes a cellar or a cellar is used. Wrap each fruit with soft or papyrus paper, fold them into wooden boxes and put on pallets. If there is no paper, you can use sand, sawdust, polystyrene crumbs or oak leaves, pouring this material fruit, stacked in boxes up tails.
- Asking whether it is possible to store pears in the refrigerator, it is worthwhile to answer what you can, if its dimensions permit. For this, the fruit is placed in plastic bags of 1-2 kg. Packets are tied, but to ensure air circulation in them you need to make a few small holes.
- Interested in how still it is possible to store pears of winter varieties, it is worth paying attention to the way of lezhki in the ground. Fruits are packed in packages of 1-5 kg and with the first autumn frosts are laid in pits dug at a depth of 20-30 cm. You can mark a place if you tie a stick to the package and stick it into the ground. To protect against rodents, place the storage place with spruce and juniper branches.