What diseases can carrots put into storage get: how gardeners who have learned from bitter experience protect vegetables
Every time you go down to the basement where your “riches” in the form of bags of potatoes and boxes of carrots are stored, you should carefully examine the root vegetables.
Having noticed the slightest spots of rot on individual specimens, they should be immediately isolated from other vegetables, advises an expert of the online publication Belnovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
Most often, the cause of such an unpleasant phenomenon in the form of rot is high humidity in the storage area.
Thus, carrots sent for storage may become infected with alternaria, or black rot.
Root crops are affected by gray rot and white rot, as well as dry rot, or phomosis.
To avoid losing your entire harvest at once, before sending the “loot” from your plot into storage, it is worth processing the vegetables.
The biopreparation “Fitosporin-M” is suitable for this; 50 ml of it should be diluted in 0.5 l of water and the root crops should be treated with it.
This volume of solution is enough for 50 kg of vegetables. Don't forget to dry carrots, beets, potatoes and the like and only then put them in the basement.
