Cabbage is a very useful and popular vegetable. Salads, borscht, soups, side dishes, snacks, which include this vegetable, are very tasty and nutritious. It is not too difficult to grow a good cabbage crop on your site. But you need to be able to properly preserve it in order to cook dishes from fresh vegetables all winter. This article will discuss how to store cabbage in the cellar. We will tell you some reliable and effective ways to do this so that the cabbages do not spoil and preserve all the vitamins and minerals that are valuable to human health until spring.
Before talking about
how to store cabbage in the cellar, let's talk about the rules for collecting it. Their observance directly affects how long the head of cabbage will remain intact.
For harvesting this vegetable for the future choose medium-late or late varieties of cabbage. Dig cabbage with the root on a dry day. If you see that the heads are wet, do not rush to bring them into the basement. Leave the heads to dry in a dry room. On each plant near the head, leave two or three adjacent leaves. They protect the heads from excessive evaporation and damage during carrying and styling.
How to keep cabbage in the cellar with whole heads until spring? When the entire crop is harvested, pick up whole medium-sized, solid heads of cabbage. Cracked and very small fruits, use for salting and canning. Well, further storage of cabbage in the cellar can be done in the following ways.
- Lay out the heads on a flat wooden surface (shelving, table, shelf) with stitches up. The heads must not touch each other.
- Hang the heads of cabbage with their heads down to the ceiling in the basement. This method is good because the cabbage is ventilated from all sides and does not stale.
- You can save this vegetable until spring by "planting" it in the sand. Pour it into a wide drawer or directly on the floor and moisten. Bury the cabbage in the sand, roots down. Spray water from this vegetable from time to time.
- There is another way to store whole cabbage in the cellar. Wrap each head (without root) with paper and lay on a rack or wooden grate. Observe the condition of the package: if it becomes wet, it means that the vegetable must be used as quickly as possible. Dry heads of cabbage can lie in this form until spring.
- Plastic bags are another aid in saving cabbage. The selected heads are packaged in new plastic bags, squeezed air out of them and sealed with an iron. Store such a blank in the basement.
- Claying cabbage heads provides long-term and high-quality vegetable preservation. Dilute clay with water in a wide bucket and cover each head of cabbage with this mass. Tie the rope first on the stump. After the claying procedure, hang the cabbage with its root up to the ceiling in the basement.
Now you know the most reliable and trusted ways of storing cabbage in the cellar. These simple methods will help you preserve the harvest of healthy and tasty vegetables throughout the cold season.