To preserve the grown fruit harvest, you need to start acting already in the spring. At the start, you need to think about processing the plantings, whitewashing the trunks and applying fertilizers.
But even this is not enough for apples and pears to last as long as the gardener wants.
Let's talk about the mistakes.
Variety
Sadly, no matter how hard a gardener tries, varietal characteristics will take their toll. This is the first thing to consider when storing the harvest in cellars. This applies to dessert apples and pears.
Objective factors
In addition to selection features, you need to remember about storage conditions. For example, high humidity and high temperature in the storage will not benefit the fruits. Even winter apples can punish to live long in such conditions.
Damage
This concerns the harvesting process. Many people know that fruits are not washed before being stored. But it is also important to pay attention to the presence of dents, cuts and other damage through which pathogenic organisms can attack the fruits and the rotting process will be inevitable.
And the last circumstance
This concerns exactly the same pathogenic microflora. Even seemingly healthy and unbruised fruits can be inhabited by those who invisibly destroy them – microbes. In this case, only preventive treatment can help, as well as competent care of the garden, which will not allow infections to destroy the grown crop.
The same applies to the treatment of the storage area of the harvest (including containers). If something rotted in the cellar last year and was not treated, then something will definitely rot this year too.
