Harvest: when to pick a pumpkin from the garden,How to determine the maturity of the fetus? Terms of harvesting pumpkin inMoscow region

Вт, 29 ноя 2016 Автор: Юлия Кривенко

Pumpkin is an unpretentious gourd culture rich in vitamins
and minerals. It contains much more carotene than
carrots. Grow it almost everywhere. Among gardeners
pumpkin is valued for its ability to preserve its taste on
throughout the storage period. In order for it not to lose
its nutrients, the pumpkin must be removed in time from the garden.
Frozen vegetables are poorly stored, and under good conditions, lie
all winter and not spoil.

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Cleaning different types of pumpkins

Pumpkin rather cold-resistant culture, so clean it with
beds the very last. When and how to do it correctly? Today
gardeners grow many varieties of this vegetable, which
differ in terms of ripening. Harvest ripeness depends on
weather conditions. When to remove the early varieties of pumpkins from the garden, and
when late ripening – this question is asked not only by beginners.

• Early ripe pumpkins are ready for harvest within 120 days from
emergence of seedlings. This vegetable is not very rich in carotene, its flesh
fibrous, but the seeds are very useful. To start cleaning with
second half of august. In September, the entire crop should be harvested.
Vegetable is stored for a relatively short time.

• Mid-season varieties can be removed after 130 days from germination.
These varieties are mostly large-fruited, rich in vitamins and
well kept However, do not delay with the cleaning. In conditions
Moscow region pumpkin clean already in September, leaving it in the dry
room for 30 days for ripening.

• The late-ripening muscat varieties are harvested the most recent,
after about 150 days from germination. In the south of the country they are good
are ripening on lashes, but in other regions they start harvesting in 2
months before frost. Fruits are stored for 5 months.

Important! If the vegetable harvest is late, and he
got frozen, it should be recycled. Keep
Frozen pumpkin can not be.

Harvest time depends on the weather forecast and geographical
region of the country. If in the Crimea, you can postpone the harvesting of fruits until
October, in the conditions of the Moscow region and Siberia, the pumpkin is already removed in
early fall. When choosing dates, weather remains an important issue.
conditions. If frost is coming, then you need to hurry with cleaning.
The most recently removed ornamental varieties of pumpkins, which are not
used in food.

How to determine the ripeness of pumpkin

Any vegetable, regardless of the variety and precocity has external
signs by which one can determine the moment of maturity. Knowing these
subtlety, any summer resident in time will start harvesting that
will save most of it.

1. Carefully looking at the petiole, you may find that
became hard, lost juiciness.

2. A ripe pumpkin acquires an orange or yellowish color. Clearly
visible her face.

3. The degree of maturity can be checked with a fingernail. If the peel of the fruit
difficult to damage, then it is quite ripe.

4. At the end of the growing season, the lashes and foliage of the plant die.

5. Ripe pumpkin is covered with a matte coating and rings with a light
clap.

If the crop corresponds to the above described characteristics,
then the pumpkin is removed from the garden, so it will be better preserved, it will not lose
its beneficial properties.

Fruits that have not yet fully ripened, it is better to send to
ripening in a dry room. Keep плоды с не сформировавшейся
peel is impossible. Best of them cook delicious homemade
conservation.

Proper care of a pumpkin before harvesting

Regardless of which variety is grown in the garden,
protect fruits from spoilage and rot before harvest.

In wet weather, when the fruits are in contact with the ground, the peel
rotting. Inexperienced gardeners are trying to put the vegetable in processing.
But this can not be done. The fact is that in the pulp occur
changes, and the use of such a fruit leads to poisoning.

For the safety of the harvest pumpkins placed on a mound, under them
thrust boards. In rainy weather you need to cover the fruit.
film. In the last month before harvesting stop watering
beds

How to remove a pumpkin from the garden

Undoubtedly, that vegetable remains the most nutritious and beneficial.
who ripened right on the whip. But if the weather conditions become
worse, cleaning is carried out immediately. The pumpkins will ripen already
in room.

For harvesting you need to choose a fine fine day. In the rainy
Autumn after collecting the fruits are dried in a ventilated area.
Cut pumpkins very carefully so that they do not fall and do not get damaged.
bark. Those fruits that will be stored, cut off with
peduncle, which height is up to 5 cm.

After harvesting, the harvest is sorted. Fruits with cracks and
tattered skin is eaten first or
allowed for recycling. The fact is that through the cracks penetrate
microbes that damage the flesh: it becomes moldy and
rots.

The sorted crop is dried, the remains of the earth and dry are removed
foliage. After which it is placed on ripening in a dry indoor.
storage where temperature is maintained up to 30 degrees. Such
conditions, the rind of the fruit gradually hardens. Maturity crop
held up to 10 days to a month.

How and where to store pumpkin

After ripening, the crop is again sorted,
rejecting the fruit with a soft peel. Next, pumpkins are laid on
storage.

Important! The longest stored fruit diameter
which is not less than 15 cm.

For long-term storage of pumpkins choose a dry room, where
air temperature is maintained within 10-13 degrees and
equipped with good ventilation. Directly in the storage of vegetables
laid out in a single layer, preventing them from contact with moisture. It is better,
if shelves with shelves will be used to store pumpkins,
as in the photo. The distance from the floor to the first shelf should not be
less than 15 cm. With this storage the harvest will be well ventilated
from all sides, which will ensure its safety.

Good storage should be well protected from rodents and
fungal infections. It is important that when storing the crop on the fruit is not
condensation formed.

In the winter months, the pumpkin is periodically checked, rejected
fruits with softened peel. This suggests that the pumpkin began
spoil.

Pumpkin harvest storage periods

Growing different varieties of pumpkin, you can constantly use it
in food and replenish the body with essential vitamins. To save
The harvest is important to know not only the storage conditions, but also the timing.

The least stored crop early varieties of pumpkin: Almond 35,
Freckles, Gribovskaya bush. These fruits need to be eaten.
the very first. Stability of such varieties is not more than a month.
Further, the pulp loses its taste, and the seeds begin to
germinate inside the fruit.

Medium and late muscat pumpkin varieties are well stored all
winter, without loss of taste: Pearl, Muscat,
Vitamin, Smile, Baby. Average keeping quality of fruits reaches 5-6
months, after which the flesh loses its properties and becomes
fibrous, tasteless.

Let’s sum up

It is necessary to clean the pumpkins from the garden correctly, taking into account
not only the time of cultivation, the technical characteristics of the fetus, but also
погодные conditions. In each specific region, the time for cleaning
adjusted for these indicators.

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