It has long been in Russia cabbage valued no less bread. It was eaten all year round.
Cabbage is good antioxidant, the most famous - carotene, because of this, many call it a product of youth. White cabbage is a traditional vegetable in the vegetable gardens of our country.
There are a lot of varieties, but the storage should be chosen correctly.
Useful information about how to store savoy cabbage, Beijing, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower, you can find on our website.
Variety selection
What kinds of white cabbage are suitable for storage? For storage of white cabbage, you need to choose late and late ripening varieties:
- Wintering 1474 - very resistant to frost. Rosette large with small leaves. Round flat cabbages, weight reaches 3.5 kg. High sugar content. Practically do not crack. Excellent keeping quality up to 8 months. Suitable for the northern regions;
- Albatross F1 - representative of late-ripe hybrids. Fruits are rounded flat, dense, average weight 3 kg. During winter storage it is resistant to diseases and white rot;
- Alaska F1 - late hybrid. The head is round gray-green, short stump. The weight of a small, only 1.8 kg, can remain on the bed for a long time due to resistance to freezing;
- Present - head of a dense light green, glossy, flat-rounded shape. Suitable for pickling. Cabbage is cold-resistant, can be grown in Siberia;
- Moscow late - very fruitful and large-fruited grade. Head weighing up to 8 kg, sometimes up to 13 kg. The fruit is round green, perfect for pickling;
- F1 Gingerbread Man - late maturity. Heads are dense, do not crack, have a rather short stump. From above color of cabbage is green, in a cut - white. Practically not subject to disease and rot. Excellent keeping quality;
Garant F1 - the head of the head is more oval, gray-green outside, yellow in the section. The taste is excellent. May be stored until June;- Frost - a rounded flat head is well covered with large green leaves. Resistant to cracking. The storage is excellent, can be stored until the next harvest;
- Sugar Loaf - the variety is valued for its taste, but in a fresh state it can be stored only until the New Year;
- Kharkov winter - the latest matured variety. The average weight of cabbages to 3 kg. It tolerates heat and cold during growth.
Garant F1 - the head of the head is more oval, gray-green outside, yellow in the section. The taste is excellent. May be stored until June;You can learn about the varieties of cabbage suitable for long-term storage from the video:
Fundamental rules
How to store cabbage in the winter?
Training
We start harvesting white cabbage in autumn, preferably until it froze.
Choose cool but dry weather. Cabbage harvested during the warm season will be more prone to rot during storage. For long-term keeping quality it is necessary that the head fully matured. To do this, press hard, it must be very dense.
Pull the plant out of the ground, cut the root, stump leave long. For the winter are suitable heads of cabbage, which have two upper covering green leaves. Before putting them in storage, let these leaves be tucked in.
Where to store cabbage? It is best to store in a cellar or basement. It is impossible to keep the heads of cabbage in one heap, they begin to rot faster. If there are no shelves, make flooring from the floorboards. All surfaces must be cleaned. baking soda solution.
Fold in 2 rows up stumpsin staggered order. Cabbage contains enough moisture, so put it under the cabbages straw, constantly change. If there is little space, you can store in limbo.
One way to store cabbage in this video:
Optimal conditions
What are the optimal storage conditions for cabbage? Suitable for long term storage temperature from -1 to +2 degrees.
Air humidity should be 90 - 98%. If the room is colder, the cabbage will freeze, and when it thaws, it will quickly deteriorate, the warmer will rot.
Is it possible to store white cabbage at home? The best place is a wardrobe on the glazed loggia. It is necessary to warm it, use the usual foam.
Spread the heads in one row on the shelves, prewinding each paper, parchment or just a newspaper in several layers.
The storage room is also suitable, for this purpose the stalk is completely separated, the upper leaves are removed and the head is wrapped. cling film in several layers. Smooth each one carefully so that there are no air bubbles.
Cabbage in the pantry check once a week and remove the bad leaves. Condensation has formed, it is necessary to unwrap the cabbages, dry thoroughly, roll them up again.
How to keep white cabbage for the winter in the cellar? One way to store cabbage in the cellar in this video. We look:
Terms and methods
What is the shelf life of white cabbage? At observance of storage conditions: temperature and humidity, the green vegetable is perfectly stored up to 6 months, cabbage hybrid varieties sometimes have a longer life. True, there are varieties with a shelf life not more than three months.
How to store white cabbage? Storage methods:
- at plastic drawers - 2 - 3 months;
- in new plastic bags. They lay heads of cabbages and fasten them tightly, without access to air;
- at pit. Each row of heads is covered with sand, on top of such a vault is covered with lapnik;
- to freeze. In this condition, cabbage can be stored for a very long time, the main thing is not to re-freeze again. You can learn about the rules for freezing such types of cabbage as broccoli, Brussels and color, also from our articles;
- an interesting way - right on the bed. Under the snow, cabbage will be like in refrigerators;
pickling and salting - a way to keep heads of cabbage less dense;- heads are kept longer if dip them in claydiluted to a creamy thick, and dry outside.
Watch the video about the technology of storage of cabbage right in the garden in winter:
pickling and salting - a way to keep heads of cabbage less dense;Cabbage contains large amounts of vitamin Cwhich is stored for any storage method.
So, saving cabbage is not so difficult, observing simple rules and requirements, and tasty healthy dishes from this vegetable will be on your tables until spring.
You can learn about this way of storing white cabbage, like pickling or salting, from the video:
