How to keep apples for the winter?

Keep apples in winter is not easy, because suchThe fruits are tender enough and quickly deteriorate. To save them for a long time, you need to properly tear and prepare apples, as well as choose the best way to store them.

Harvesting

Collect apples only in dry weather. Begin to remove the fruits required from the lower branches, and then gradually move to those that are located above. Collect fruits only with gloves. Each apple gently twirled in the hand, then slightly lift and then tear along with the peduncle. After that, carefully place the fruits in the baskets. You can not throw them, otherwise they will get hurt.

Preparing apples

To keep apples for the winter, after collecting themit is necessary to prepare. First, go through them. Put aside the damaged, wormy and too small fruit. They are not suitable for long-term storage, but are great for billets.

Then spread the apples into one layer under the canopy andleave for a few weeks. It is not necessary to wash them in advance, since for long-term storage it is impossible to allow the washing of their natural plaque. During this time, some fruits may start to rot, they will need to be put aside.

Ways of storing apples

There are several options for optimal storage of apples:

Sawdust or shavings. Take the cardboard boxes and dry them. Then lay on their bottom a thick layer of sawdust or shavings (about 5-7 cm). After that start to lay out in one line apples. Then fill them with sawdust or shavings, and put fruit on top again. So act until you fill the entire container.
Plastic chests. If you have such a capacity, then you can store apples in them. But first they will need to be processed in the following solution: mix 500 mg of alcohol with 100 g of propolis and heat up to 45 degrees. Be sure to dry the apples in the air, and then lay out on the chests.
Wooden boxes. To preserve the fruit for a long period, each of them must be wrapped in a napkin or newspaper before laying.

Find out what can be cooked from apples, and how to preserve fruits, berries and other fruits from the articles presented in the Fruits section.