Everyone knows that storing a harvest depends on how much the gardener has taken care of fertilizers, diseases and pest control.
It is equally important to prepare the cellar for storing new supplies. But even in this case, it is better to play it safe and use folk tricks.
Experienced gardeners claim that after harvesting the vegetables from the beds, the successful neighborhood of vegetables remains an equally pressing issue.
In the garden beds they help each other grow, and in the cellar they extend the shelf life.
Here is one way to extend the shelf life of potatoes.
How to proceed
The prepared potato harvest is placed in the cellar after preliminary drying. It is important to immediately weed out broken, spoiled and diseased potatoes.
And in order for it to last all winter without wrinkling, beets need to be stored together with potatoes.
This is the easiest way to regulate humidity in the cellar.
You can layer the potatoes with rowan leaves, and place beets on top in 1-2 layers.
You also need to make sure that the cellar has ventilation and that the air temperature does not rise above +5 degrees Celsius.
