Ways to store onions for a long time in an apartment in winter
The onion crop this year surprised you enormously, so you started thinking about how to preserve it, right? Organizing onion storage is a very responsible matter, since improper conditions of keeping can negate all your efforts to grow it.
Next, you will learn about where and how to properly store onions in the winter in the apartment, so that they remain fresh and juicy until spring.
Important! Of course, only timely harvested and well dried bow will keep for a long time.
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Rules and suitable conditions for long-term storage of onions: where (in what place) is it better to store
Obviously, a basement or cellar is the best possible place to store onions, as well as any other crop.
Of course, provided that the cellar (basement) is dry and well-ventilated (there is ventilation), and the air temperature is stably kept around + 1 ... + 4 degrees.
But even if you do not have a cellar or basement (= a private house), the onion can be stored quite successfully and for a long time in an apartment, so to speak, at home. Moreover at room temperature (ideally, if it is + 18 ... + 20 degrees, but not higher than +25).
The most unsuitable storage temperature onions - + 5 ... + 15 degrees Celsius and high humidity. In such conditions, he must decay and / or germinate.
Where to store onions in the apartment?
- In the pantry.
- In the winter refrigerator (under the window).
- In the kitchen cabinet.
Simply put, the place for storing onions in the apartment should be moderately warm, dark (without access to sunlight) and well ventilated (without normal air circulation, decay processes will begin).
Note! Do not store onions next to potatoes, carrots or beets (they need high humidity for long-term storage, but rather, on the contrary, it is contraindicated).
The best neighbor for onions is garlic.
Interesting! Only yellow onions have excellent keeping quality, white and red ones are very poorly stored.
How best to store onions: the best storage methods and options
- In braids.
Worth knowing! The turnip onions, tied in braids, not only decorate the kitchen or pantry, but are also stored with minimal losses (it will be more convenient for you to control the condition of the bulbs).
Not sure how to tie a bow into braids? Then watch this video (master class).
Video: how to knit a bow in a braid
If weaving braids seems to be something very difficult, then you can tie the bow into bunches.
If you want to put the bulbs in any container, then it must necessarily "breathe", in other words, it can be all kinds:
- linen bags;
- card boxes with holes;
- plastic boxes for vegetables with holes (cells);
- or wooden boxes (again with holes).
By the way! You can also hang the bow in nets or nylon tights.
Important! No plastic bags! In them, the onion will rot in a matter of days.
Well, now you know all the basic storage methods and rules, following which, you can keep your onions in the best possible way throughout the winter, and, possibly, spring (until the summer and the new harvest).
Advice! Whichever method you choose, you must periodically need to carefully examine the bulbs in order to quickly remove the spoiled ones so that they do not infect healthy ones.