How to keep onions for the winter

Choosing a bulb onions for the winter, it is important to select only quality bulbs. Best suitable for storage is goldenbow. Yes, it is sharper than red or white, but such varieties have good resistance, and there is less likelihood that the onion will deteriorate during storage.

Select only intact bulbs for storage. Look at the "butt" of each bulb - there should not be any sprouts on it. To keep the onions long, choose bulbs with dry tails. Also need to touch every bulb: to the touch, it must be strong, stiff and dry, without damp spots and dents.

If you keep onions for your winter from your own garden, It is also important to choose the right time for harvesting, it is best to do this in dry weather. Pull the bow carefully: if you damage its lower part, it will quickly decay during storage. Next, select the onion for storage by the criteria that we listed above.

To keep onions for the winter, you need to properly prepare it for storage: even if you selected quality bulbs, they can deteriorate if you neglected the preparation phase. To start, the onion should be dried. It is best to spread it evenly in the open air.

If the weather is wet, you can use an oven to dry the onions, but in this case it is very important not to over-dry the onion. Dry at minimum temperature and make sure that the top scales of bulbs do not crack.

When the bulbs dry out, take scissors and cut the dried feathers. Crop them should not be under the root, but leaving a small "tail" length of about 2-3 cm from the peel onions do not need to clean: it contributes to better preservation.

Where and how to store onion in winter? Usually the onions are shifted to wooden boxes for the winter. It is advised to take shallow drawers in which the onionswill not be too thick (not more than 30 cm). It is better to put several shallow boxes on top of each other than to dump all the onions into one deep one. Make sure that there are holes in the boxes for ventilation: good ventilation is the guarantee of the preservation of the onion.

If you do not have wooden boxes, you can keep onions for the winter in tissue bags. Do not need to pour too much into one bagonions: the maximum height of a layer of onions in a bag should not exceed already mentioned 30 see For the best safety of a bow it is possible to pour on its onion husks - it will prevent drying of bulbs. Another bow is sometimes lightly sprinkled with chalky dust to protect it from insects.

Some housewives simply fold the onion in special meshes or just old pantyhose and hang it in the basement. Do not store onions in plastic bags, because they do not let in moisture and air, and the onion quickly becomes fogged, and eventually rot.

Store the onions advised in a dry and dark place with a constant cool temperature. The best option is the basement, if onlyin winter the temperature does not fall below zero: the optimum temperature for storage of onion is 2 degrees of heat and above, at a lower temperature it will freeze. If there is no basement, you can store onions in the apartment, but it is important to keep the room at a constant temperature in the range of 18-24 degrees.

After removing the onion for storage, do not forget about it for the whole winter. Unfortunately, when storing it is difficult to maintain a constant level of humidity, so that the bulbs can dry out from too low humidity or begin to germinate or even rot from too high.

therefore From time to time, onions need to be picked and taken out spoiled bulbsso that they do not spoil the rest of the onions. Even if the bulb is spoiled quite a bit, you can not keep it further: it's better to trim the spoiled area and use it for cooking. And absolutely spoiled bulbs, of course, must be thrown out immediately. If the onion becomes overheated or podkok, but has not yet begun to deteriorate, you need to dry it as soon as possible and again put it away for storage.

That's all the advice on how to how to keep onions for the winter. As you can see, nothing complicated!