Autumn was fertile and presented a rich harvest of pears? The necessary preparations in the form of dried fruits from pears and dried fruits have already been made, but are there still many fruits?
Is it possible to keep fresh fruits at home? What and how to store pears? For how long? And will there be anything useful in them? The answers to these questions are here.
Fruit use
Pear - one of the most useful delicacies. With a small calorie content and sugar content pears have a huge stock. nutrients and vitamins. This fruit exceeds the content of vitamin C even black currants.
Eaten two fresh pears on an empty stomach will relieve heartburn and eliminate intestinal discomfort. That is why the use of this fresh fruit is so important. How to store pears at home?
Selection of fruits
Perhaps the main condition for long-term storage of pears is their careful selection.
Most performed well for fresh storage in autumn (Forest Beauty, Georges Boucher, Original, Dessert and others) and winter varieties of pears (Saratovka, Kondratievka, Pass-Krassan, Bere Ardanpon, Cure (William Winter) and others).
Pears are recommended to be removed from the tree, more underripe, because during storage they will have time to ripen. Thanks to this subtlety, significantly reduced rotting and spoilage of fruit.
The second factor to follow note - This is the appearance of the fruit. They should be without signs of spoilage, whole, dry, hard, without symptoms of the disease, without various defects. Be sure the presence of the stem.
The third rule relates directly to the collection of the pear. The weather must be by all means dry. If frosts begin and the temperature drops at night to -15 ° C, then the fruits become unsuitable for fresh storage.
Fruit needs to be removed accurately, strongly without pressing on them. It is necessary to clasp the pear with his hand, press on the stalk and, lifting it a little, separate it from the branch.
Proper packaging
How to keep pears for the winter at home?
The box must be with air access holes, if this condition is neglected, then rotting pears is inevitable. The bottom and sides of the container are lined with paper. Pears spread the stem up or to the side, so that they do not touch each other.
In one box stack pears of one grade. It is necessary to lay out pears in boxes in layers, each of which is necessary paper off, shavings or dry straw. Do not spread the fruit more than two layers.
Some gardeners keep these fruits without boxes, on specialized racks. On these shelves, covered with paper, pears are laid out in one layer of the stem up.
Choosing a place
Where and how to keep pears at home? Storage space for these fruits is not so much.
Cellar or basement must be disinfected. For disinfection, you can use the advice on fumigating the room with sulfur vapor.
To do this, put in the cellar brazier with hot coals and sulfur powder. The doors close tightly and after 2-3 days the room is completely disinfected.
There should be no trace on the walls. mildew and fungi. It is necessary to monitor compliance with the temperature and humidity. Pears should not be stored near other vegetables.
Special rooms for fruit storage: it can be a storage room, pantry or any unheated room. Storage conditions are similar: low temperature, humidity not less than 85%, good ventilation and lack of light. If the latter condition is difficult to fulfill, the boxes with the pears are covered with a dark cloth that passes the air well.
Required track carefully fruit condition. Unlike apples, pears are stored not so well and for a long time.
One spoiled fruit can spoil the whole crop. Periodically need to inspect pears, rotten and tarnished fruit. delete immediately.
If you do not have the ability to store pears in the cellar, then try to do it in your own home.
In city apartments for the preservation of fresh pears, you can use balcony. The main condition is the absence of negative temperatures. Within two to three months, it is possible to save fruit.
Storage conditions: box or any ventilated container. Pears laid out in layers. Layers are poured straw or clean sand. If it is problematic to find these materials in an urban setting, the following method can be used.
Each pear carefully wrapped in thin paper. It is undesirable to use a newspaper, because printing ink is not environmentally friendly. Tissue or parchment paper will do. Put in a box in one or two layers. Do not forget to regularly check for the presence of spoiled fruit.
In the absence of all the above storage locations, you can save a small amount of fresh pears in a refrigerator.
Dry, hard and slightly unripe pears packaged in 0.5 kg plastic bag. Make small punctures in the package for air intake.
Inspect the fruit regularly. At the slightest signs of damage you need to use the entire package.
Optimal conditions
How to keep pears fresh for a long time? Optimal storage conditions for pears in the apartment:
- storage temperature;
- storage humidity.
For long-term preservation of the crop, it is necessary to strictly monitor compliance with the temperature and humidity of storage. If pears are stored on the balcony, then the temperature regime is up to -1 C, that is, until negative temperature.
When stored in the refrigerator, the required temperature is set within from +1 to +5 degrees Celsius. When stored in special rooms and cellar conditions are as follows:
- Temperature is from -1 to 0 ° C.
- Humidity from 85 to 90%.
Storage time
Unfortunately, even with all the methods of compliance with the regime, the storage time for pears is not very large. The average shelf life of fruit with proper storage from 2 to 4 months. Under ideal conditions, winter varieties can be saved until April, keeping them juicy and healthy.
But here it is necessary to take into account many factors: the type of fruit, the degree of maturity of the fruit at harvest, storage temperature, humidity of the room. AT the fridge the preservation of fresh fruit is very small: up to one month.
In spite of the fact that keeping pears fresh for a long time is very difficult, with the observance of all the above rules, this possibly.
Pears retain taste and beneficial qualities even after prolonged storage. For this reason, all the difficult activities to preserve them acquit.
In addition, if you are the owner of an annual large harvest of pears, you have the opportunity by the end of winter to earn a decent amount.
Because pears are always sold very well and are favorite fruit of many people.
