Each farmer will confirm that it is not enough to grow a good harvest, it is very important to preserve the vegetables, fruits and other gifts of the land obtained as a result of titanic labor. If large farms and agricultural enterprises have no problems with this, then owners of relatively small plots of land, summer residents and gardeners may encounter certain difficulties when deciding on the safety of agricultural products grown in their own garden.
The easiest way to save vegetables
As in many other cases, to solve the issue under consideration, it will not be superfluous to turn to the centuries-old experience of our ancestors, who came up with the easiest way to store agricultural products - a pile. One of the easiest ways to keep the crop is to build a collar right on the plot where the vegetables were grown.
Burt is a depression in the ground in which vegetables are laid, covered with straw or tarpaulin from above. At its core, collars are the simplest structures available for equipping by every gardener.
To ensure the safety of the crop, the shoulders must be located in sheltered from the wind, several elevated and open areas. Also, the area should not be exposed to excessive moisture.
Depth
Burt is not a high-tech modern solution, where all the moments and nuances that arise during the storage of agricultural products are provided, therefore, during its construction it is important to follow some simple recommendations.
There is some separation of collars by type. These types are represented by ground, half-buried and buried collars. As the name implies, a ground pile is a common mound of vegetables on the ground, an approach that is acceptable in the warm southern regions. As you move north, create semi-buried piles - pits with a depth of about 0.3 meters. In cold regions, recessed shoulders are used - the depth of such a solution can be up to one meter.
Dimensions
As for the size of the shoulder, they can be almost any, everything here depends on the volume of agricultural products that must be preserved. In this case, a shoulder is usually formed up to three meters wide and not more than ten meters in length.
The burt of potatoes, table beets, radishes, carrots and other root crops, as well as cabbage, if necessary, ensures the preservation of the crop almost until the beginning of the next season.
Temporary storage of cereals
Burt can be a repository not only for vegetables and root crops. As a temporary solution to the issue of safety equip a pile of grain. From the point of view of agricultural science, a collar is understood to mean a consignment of grain that was put into storage according to certain rules and outside a specialized storage. Such temporary storage methods involve finding the grain just under the open sky in a special container or in bulk. When constructing a collar for an embankment, it is necessary to choose a form to provide shelter for grain in case of need, for example, when weather conditions worsen. In addition, the shape of the embankment should ensure that rainfall is drained in the most efficient manner.
As you can see, a collar is a good, easy-to-organize and time-tested solution for temporary or permanent storage of the crop.