Grapes: Summer pruning

Summer pruning in grapes

Summer pruning is required to:

     the vine to keep compact (rank of 4 m are not uncommon).
     the clusters can therefore develop optimal
     The grapes may be the right light more mature
     because the vine can be less fluffy fungal action (rot)

Pruning:
During the development of the branches it cuts it to two leaves beyond the bunch. It is possible that multiple clusters on a vine out. It retains only the cluster that is closest to the gesteltak. Branches which no cluster is present, cut it to 40 cm. The axillary shoots of the two upper leaves arise as new shoots that can always cut back to a leaf. Only the extension of the still young to form gesteltak be left alone.
In the hope that with the pruning a rich harvest of juicy grapes, may be obtained, I wish you much success!

grape cuttings

Propagation of grapes by taking a cutting-eyed
Introduction:Self grapes grow? It can, everyone in his garden on a sunny south wall or shelter can easily have his own sweet, juicy fruits grow. You do not need to buy expensive greenhouse. I may guide you, with some good will, a good dose of energy, some useful tips and the proper way we are already well on the right track.
First I want some of my preferred varieties and thrive in our climate to introduce you:
* 'Boskoop Glory'Is supporting a very rich, blue outdoor grape variety in these parts easily ripe fruit gives this from late August to early October. These sweet and juicy grapes, the size of a small cherry, and a stunning, exceptionally beautiful autumn leaf discolouring that adds value to our garden in the fall.
* "Early Laan»The white grape in our area, also sweet and juicy. Perhaps a small weakness: the beautiful coloration of the leaf is missing here!
Some other species that qualify for outdoor cultivation:* Counsellor Depoorter (blue)* Chasselas de Fontainebleau (white)
Varieties that are only known to breed in the greenhouse:* Frankenthaler (blue)* Muscat of Alexandria (White)









Propagation by taking a cutting-eyed:Taking cuttings is best in the months from December to February when the vines are at rest. This can be done by taking cuttings or by one-eyed winter cuttings. The latter we treat with the most extensive for the obvious reason that it is the simplest and most successful method.

    We always start from a healthy, thick pencil annuals sprout in the thawed state. This can perhaps be obtained from friends or acquaintances who like vines or perhaps you yourself have been the proud owner of a (possibly purchased) vine.
Note: the eyes or buttons must be sufficiently developed and free of disease.
Method:

    Cut with a knife or cutting shears, a good place with an eye on it, the latter from the strong, one-year shoot. Cut 1 inch above the eye cutting diagonally (reason: water runs off, better drying and prevent mold) and cut the bottom flat cutting off a length of 5-7 cm below the eye.
    
    Take immediate grafting wax hot or cold (possibly paraffin) or wound healing treatments on the slanted top of the wound site. The latter to avoid dehydration as well as protection against possible mold.

    Insert the cuttings one-eyed man is now in a pot or container cutting (several clones) filled with a mixture of healthy soil and sharp sand (ratio 5 / 1). Insert the cuttings so that the eye or the button 1 inch above the ground. The extra soil around the cuttings press firmly to ensure good contact.
    The soil should be moist but not wet.
    
    Wrap the pot with a plastic bag or a piece of PET bottle in order to avoid dehydration. Pierce the bottle a bit to promote ventilation. Place the cuttings in a greenhouse with bottom heat (20 ° C) or just on the windowsill in the living room at room temperature (not in full sun burn =). Regularly check soil moisture and remove mold if necessary.

    The eye of the site will soon swell, leak and a dash of form, this does not mean that there are already roots. It takes inwortelingsproces after several weeks, first appears on one side a carrot.

    If the roots are real throughput you can also cultivate the plant in a sunny place, the protective plastic removed. Keep the soil moisture is still a close eye so that the plant at this stage not been dried or drown.
    

    After the plant has hardened off (= slow just to make the air) may be the grape cuttings rooted without pot planting against a south wall, or after June 1st.

    The result after one growing season will certainly surprise you. The long road of further care and pruning grapes in the garden I would like to explain in a subsequent article. We are looking therefore for the party?

pruning grapes

Grape pruning: pruning the summer and winter pruning

The pruning of vines but also from other fruits is a major surgery on the crops in order to secure the harvest.
For grapes, both in winter (winter pruning) and summer (summer pruning) pruned.
In winter when the vine is at rest we prune woody branches.
In the summer when in full growth, are rather young herbaceous shoots (vines) that we innijpen or insnoeien.
Both are equally important to both cut the same year but also the future to ensure fruit set. Pruning I want to discuss here in summary is here especially voor grapes grown outdoors Word but can also apply to under glass though this earlier (December) pruned to be given. It is especially the pruning of the fruiting wood that I want to explain further.

Winter Pruning of grapes
The winter pruning of the vine is best in January-February.
Early pruning to give a premature leak of the buttons on the young shoots early frost or bones can be fatal, so no recommendation.
Late pruning is bleeding from the grape and Again not recommended result. Large wounds can perfectly recover - only toebranden - so no juice escapes and is rescued vine, this is only an agent-sos, so: better safe than sorry is the message.
Winter pruning is especially necessary to plant a shape (topiary), but also a rich harvest of wealth to obtain fruits (fruit pruning wood).
Most importantly, the annual maintenance pruning or fruit wood, so I gradually, without frills, appropriate and necessary to explain to an optimal yield to come.

The two possible forms of pruning in winter:

1. topiary
A line consists of only one gesteltak that one up lead.
Espalier a frame from 3 to 4 branches per vine. This system branches are 40 - to 50 cm from each other, the latter to provide enough room for them to develop the branches. In this system branches may come later with clusters of grapes on vines.
It always starts from a young plant with a strong throw. This shoot is pruned at 60 cm above the ground. This way, you have 3 to 4 branches that must lead and tie a Espalier or espalier.Every year we zijranken pruning of branches in new frame on a pair of eyes and verlengenis also pruned every year to 60 cm in order to obtain sufficient shoots. The pruning of the extension stops until our gesteltak the vine has reached the desired height. These form the final frame later branches of the vine is the backbone and those many years will determine the shape.
2. Maintenance pruning and fruiting wood
When the vine has its final shape, we need the leaders every year to prune fruit we get and the vine within certain limits. A vine before pruning looks quite disorganized in summer especially when no pruning is applied.




We start cutting down the leaders and best way to the top of the vine until its final height.






Any side shoots are pruned to gesteltak at 2 to 4 eyes.Depending on the species (Boskoop Glory: 2 - White and Van der Laan 4 eyes). From these eyes occur during the growing season new shoots that may have come bunches.


Too old and badly placed branches, we cut away to a stump. Diseased or dead branches cut away so that we can form a source of later disease. When we cut to a stump, however, with tiny eyes and being at rest or "sleeping eye" new shoots or branches arise, which brings about rejuvenation of the vine! When the vine is pruned properly are the leaders of the small side branches visible
There you are now the cutting material and cleaning and dropping off our vine looks a lot different, mainly cleaned and tidy, but now hope for a hot summer with lots and hopefully delicious grapes immediately within reach.
Summer pruningSummer pruning in grapes is necessary to:

    the vine to keep compact (rank of 4 m are not uncommon).
    the clusters can therefore develop optimal
    The grapes may be the right light more mature
    because the vine can be less fluffy fungal action (rot)
Pruning:During the development of the branches it cuts it to two leaves beyond the bunch. It is possible that multiple clusters on a vine out. It retains only the cluster that is closest to the gesteltak. Branches which no cluster is present, cut it to 40 cm. The axillary shoots of the two upper leaves arise as new shoots that can always cut back to a leaf. Only the extension of the still young to form gesteltak be left alone.


From the axils of the leaves are again two shoots that can in turn shorten up on the first page.
Summer pruning is every week to fourteen days to happen to the growth and flowering and harvest under control!

Citrus utilization

With citrus you can find many useful things
Citrus can be very useful in many cases:
Sometimes I have a bit of lemon or orange on. What can I do about it?
If you pour orange juice over your strawberry, red fruit flavors that taste even better.
Very sour oranges taste a little sweeter when you add some salt.
The peel of both oranges and unsprayed lemons can preserve.
If you cook eggs, put some lemon in the water, then they do not play.
If you add lemon juice to charcoal, you prevent a long cabbage smell hangs in the house.
Add some lemon juice to the rice you are cooking. Thus he is pretty dry and beautifully white.
Bananas, apples and mushrooms do not fade when you pour lemon juice over.
Take a look a little lemon juice into the water you use for ice cubes. This gives a refreshing taste to your drink.
Wilted lettuce bring you back to life by him in water with a little lemon juice to explain.
A geutje lemon juice in the baking butter, prevents the fish from falling apart. The fish bakes therefore not stuck in your pan.
Keep the peel of unsprayed lemons and oranges in the freezer. Frozen, you can easily grated. They taste good in cake, if you do not give much of the fruits used inside, because the taste is slightly bitter.
Put the juice of half a lemon in a cup of sweet, strong coffee. According to ancient books that will help a hangover.
An ancestral recipe for the need for liquor to reduce a late untreated orange peel with a few sprigs of parsley simmer for fifteen minutes. You have to drink seven and then let it cool. Then pour into a bottle and take every morning a small sip.

Can I also use my citrus body care?
Greasy hair treatment is best by lemon juice to the last rinse add.
Nicotine stains on fingernails disappear rubbing with lemon.
And if you rub a lemon on your teeth, they are beautifully white again after a while.

My grandmother often used citrus in the house but I can not remember what.In the household does wonders with the lemon cleaning of bronze, copper, silver, marble and rust.
Take it a piece of lemon in the dishwater. This creates a shiny and soft water service.Aluminum cookware to be completely clean again, if you water with a squirt of lemon juice to boil.
A jamvlek is quicker way if you have some lemon on spritst. But let it not be too long in a lemon-colored garment down. Lemon bleaches the color out.
Orange stains you get the easiest way with vinegar. Thoroughly with water rinse.
Whites are nice and white again, if you add some lemon to the rinsing water. You may also be a canvas bag filled with slices of lemon was the stabbing.
A dirty sponge is clean again, if you rinse it in water with lemon.
A slice of lemon in the flower vase makes the flowers last longer-lasting, because the water stays fresher.
A nasty smell in your home can eliminate a piece of dried orange peel on a metal plate to burn.

blue grapes

Red grapes: Vitis Boskoop Glory


Vitis Boskoop Glory

Vitis Boskoop Glory is one of the best blue varieties of the Belgian climate. It is a fairly fast grower with tendrils to 7 meters. Boskoop Glory has large, light green leaves and is hardy.
The vine blooms with small green flowers that are visited by bees busy. During the summer and autumn the ripening clusters with moderately large, dark blue fruits.

autumn colors
Grapes are cultivated for ornamental autumn colors. Twigs and vines of Vitis coignetiae felty are rusty, like the underside of the leaf. The leaves change color to dark purple.
De Wingerd, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, is related to the grape. He climbs to 20 m high.
The autumn leaves change color purple.

Some practical tips for use:
Boskoop Glory prefers a south wall, where the fruits ripen best. Grapes have calcium needs, which takes the plant out of the wall.
Plant against a wall, a large hole the best interests of the poorer land. Fill the gap with a mixture of compost, peat and old cow manure. Grapes in the garden or a greenhouse, do not require large planting holes.
Vines have as a young plant well guided along wires stretched. The rotating climbing vines provide their own support.
Who wants a lot of grapes to prune carefully, after November and before the sap gets going. The fruits grow on the side branches of shoots from the previous year. Each year it grows at a floor, so shall also the bottom of the vine leaves and catches up to light.

Blueberries

Different types of plants with strikingly beautiful blue berries adorn the gardens
Special decorative blue berries.
In the fall besheesters constitute an important element in the garden. Everyone enjoys the colorful fruit, which does not always have real fleshy berries. But they all are decorative. Most species are besheesters twice a year nice when they bloom and again when they bear fruit. It is recommended that in any planting one or more besheesters to take. Forget the types of blueberries, because black gives a special touch to a garden and if it's not just the leaves or flowers.

Blueberries are very special
Berries and fruits that are red or orange, are quickly discovered by the birds as they are delicious, they disappear in no time from the trees and shrubs. But is it red fruits between red leaf, as in some cherry, they see not. It is striking that birds also white fruit between green leaves hardly see. White currants remain long suspended, while the red berries around quickly be eaten bare. Also black fruits are common: in privet, ivy (Hedera), the black hips of the wild-rose (Rosa pimpinellifolia), the berries of elderberry (Sambucus nigra) and black currant (Ribes nigrum). Purple is also fairly common, eg in the berries of Callicarpa bodinieri 'Profusion' and Pernettya. Blueberries are very special. They occur mainly in bushes green, white or yellow flowers.

Beautiful blue enough fruits
Think blue not only hurt and plums (Prunus species), although often beautiful blue. Maybe you shoot the first blue grapes in mind (Vitis vinifera), where Atalanta butterflies love.
Beautiful frosted blue berries of the American blueberry or blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) that acid soil and which keeps the berries are much larger than our native wild bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus, with blue fruits) that much vitamin A. B and C contain. Juniper (Juniperus communis) are blue. In the ornamental shrubs are mainly mahogany shrub (Mahonia aquifolium), with its fragrant yellow flowers Berberis julianae and several Viburnum species adorned with blueberries. Very nice fruit on Viburnum davidii are and V. tinus 'Gwenllian'. It is not generally known that the blue berries of the mahogany tree are edible. Of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) knows it does. So out of hand, they are not good, but processed into jams they taste delicious. Also edible, the striking blue frosted pods (not berries) of the special, to 2 m high bush pickles (Decaisnea fargesii).

Care
The different varieties of fruits blue-bearers are so different that they do not care to detail can address. In connection with unhindered flowering and fruiting is usually only corrective pruning required. Give besheesters during flowering extra potassium-rich fertilizer. That promotes fruiting.

The garden in October
The leaves fall. Remove them from places where they can cause slippery or evergreen plants can choke (perennials, lawn). Again they are out of the pond. Choose your besheesters they now bear fruit. They can now fine plants. Bulbs and tubers of plants and non-hardy species of harvest. Mowing grass in so long it grows.

Aronia - appelbes or in apple berry

Aronia or chokeberry

Aronia / Chokeberry hardy plant with a pleasant surprise


apple berry

1.Naamgeving (Aronia in several languages)

Genus: Aronia
Type: prunifolia (x)
Synonym: Aronia floribunda (Photinia)
Family: Rosaceae, Rose Family
Subfamily: Pomoideae, Apple likes / pipfruit
Dutch name: chokeberry, appelbesstruik, appelbesboom
English: apple berry
German: Apfelbeere, Kahle Apfelbeere
Origin: O. N. Am., (Russia)

2.Appelbes as ornamental shrubs and fruit shrubs

The ornamental shrub or Aronia chokeberry is a familiar sight in public parks. But the plant for the private garden is interesting is less well known. Due to good health is also a promising bet for integrated crop arboriculture

Aronia is a deciduous shrub in the rose family, which occurs naturally in eastern North America. The decorative value he derives from the white blossom in April-May, the healthy dark green leaves that later a bright, mostly red autumn color and the red or black edible berries.

Aronia melanocarpa is a relatively small, almost hairless shrub with edible black berries.

Of this hybrid in recent years several new cultivars have been introduced, which are grown as fruit crops or ornamental shrub. Discussed below, the "Viking" is one of them.



3.Vermeerdering of Aronia d.m.v. slips:

Aronia it is possible to graft on a rootstock. On tall, half-standard or low strain, this attractive, small tree on besdragend.
In a short rootstock remains Aronia look like a shrub, but does not grow out wide as he can make no underground runners. The grafted plants can tolerate a bit less drought than plants on own roots.

Apple Berries grow on almost any soil except heavy clay and dichtslempende, loamy sand.
The slight preference for moist sand. Although Aronia naturally prefer partial shade in the stands, he does well in full sun provided the soil is not too dry.
It is possible the shrub before or after the winter to transplant and it can withstand pruning.



4.Winterharde healthy fruits and shrubs.

Aronia is in Russia, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, many planted as fruit crops. That the plants are very hardy, is not surprising. Plants at rest can survive -30 ° C and even the roots of a plant container to about -10 ° C..

For nurseries, the chokeberry a pleasant surprise. Of all the plants from the family Rosaceae Aronia is one of the least susceptible to fire blight. Furthermore, the plant generally healthy. Fungal diseases (eg leaf spot disease) occur, but only in hot, wet summers a problem they have with a wide spacing largely preventable. If not close Chamaecyparis Aronia is planted, it will rust no chance.

Because of the high tolerance to diseases and pests is an attractive crop for Aronia integrated or organic farming.

5.Appelbes with many uses in the garden

For consumers, the plant has several options. Aronia on tall, half-standard or low strain bred as a compact ornamental tree for small gardens for example.
Because Aronia (A. x prunifolia mostly) easy to care for a fruit crop, short rootstock plants would be recommended for allotment gardens.

6.Plant and cultivation tips:

Light: Sun or partial shade

Height: 1 to 2 m

Flowering time: May-June, especially in bloom year-old wood

Flowers: white color; bloemtuilen of 20-30 cm, self-pollinating

Soil pH: neutral to calcareous soil

Type: Low shrub or tree trunk (grafted)

Plant Characteristics: (Aronia prunifolia) Fruit Black (Aug.-Sept.) Red autumn color

Fruit: Round berries 10-12 mm thick, dark blue and black when ripe and slightly frosted, evenly ripe in August; fruit weight 1-1.5 g; Juice dark red, very strong coloring, fruits are rich in vitamins, minerals and sugar.

Pruning Tips: It is possible the shrub before or after the winter to transplant and it can withstand pruning.

Use: Processing (kitchen): juice, jam, jam, ..

>>> Aronia melanocarpa 'Viking' <<<

An approximately 1 to 2 m high compact growing shrub with rich bloom.
White blossom, in screens, blooms in May-June. Many remarkably large, black fruit and a beautiful wine red fall color.
Highly recommended race, one for the flower and berry production being selected clone. Rich in vitamin C.

This small shrub is continuing in our nursery www.hortusconclusus.be on a stem of 1 m or 1.20 m grafted, in the spring covered with a fragrant white blossom, then appear black edible berries (you can be very tasty make jam ... but the birds like they do), then appears dark red autumn coloring. Apple Berries can be planted in full sun or partial shade on various soil types, including dry or humid places. The leaves in autumn pretty purple. It is a Finnish, very strong cultivar that grows like to wetlands.
Application and Use

Both the leaves, blossoms and berries are easy to process into a flower arrangement, the plant is resistant to sea wind, the blossoms can be used as cut flowers. The plant tolerates pruning easy, but the slow growth does not always. The bees make honey is delicious.

The fruits are edible and very tasty!

The plants are available in container and inoculated at 1 m or 1.20 m

Apple juices and apple species

Types of apples and apple juice derived

Apples are one of the most common fruits with us. There are also plenty of preparations ranging from crisp Braeburn apples to Granny Smith's full of juice.
To create a subdivision that is useful for cooks, all apple varieties are divided into eating apples or apple puree.
The name says it all themselves what they are:
The hand apples are intended to eat raw, while the apple puree longer belong in the kitchen for preparing meals.
The puree apples often have a slightly sour taste and the flesh will be mush when heated quickly. Of course there are eating apples that can be used in the kitchen.

Apples in the base
There are several ways to use apples. They can be dried and used for granola, fruit compotes or casseroles (whether or not dried whole and sliced​​). But the most common operation is the processing of apples into apple juice.
The diversity of apple juice has become very wide, the trend seems more to go to an apple juice from a certain species. To top it all off to make there own fizzy apple juice.
Apples are also used in alcoholic beverages. For example, cider and calvados apple-based drinks also. Previously, the manufacture of cider apple ciders even the special use. This apple variety is not meant to eat raw (that's because the cider apples have a high tannin content with very firm flesh).
Also in alcoholic cider drinks, variations in brightness, sweetness, sparkling, still or sparkling, dry or slightly less, ... Moreover, there are now non-alcohol ciders.
Calvados is a drink that is the result of a special preparation where the fermented juice of the apples is to then be distilled. Thus, the Calvados from Normandy is twice distilled and aged in oak casks for several years.
Often the term "Calvados" mistaken for apple brandy from Normandy who do not come. Calvados apple brandy only applies in the region.
Finally there are also the ciderazijnen, which are also based on apple juice. Cider Vinegar has a similar process than usual ciders, however, is here at the end of the fermentation bacteria in a vinegar added to the tartness of the cider will break and make acetic acid. The result of this process is a vinegar-like with an amber color with a soft and sweet and sour taste.

healthy apples
Apples are also healthy to eat, but what's exactly in an apple?
A piece of apple 100 grams contains:

40Kcal
85 grams water
No fat and no protein
15 grams carbohydrates
Lots of vitamin C (4.5 mg)
Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9 and B12

Apples: Tips and Recipes

Apples: Tips and Recipes

Incomparable: home-grown apples

In our climatic zone apples are a fixture in the landscape fruits. Numerous gardens and courtyards cherish their apple tree. In store and supermarket are the finest specimens Flandria to blush and to excel. No, you can not compare apples and oranges.
But the home-grown apples, the Flandria label, of course, its incomparable anyway.
Second to none ... roughly translated: the first is not the best!
The names alone will get the mouth watering. Of apples Jonagold, Golden Delicious, Cox Orange, Boskoop Jonagored or pears or a Conference, Doyenne or Durondeau go almost daydreaming. This beautiful fruit is synonymous with sweet juiciness, many changes in taste and health. They bring a wealth of essential nutrients, such as fiber, vitamins, minerals and bioactive substances.
Jonagold, Golden Delicious and the intersection of Jonathan, is by far the most popular Belgian apple.

A appeltip for each weekday:

An apple? Rather not!
The peel of the apple contains a lot of bioactive compounds, more than the flesh. Many antioxidants are near the skin, such as quercetin. Therefore, an apple are not a good idea if you want to enjoy most of his assets. Many people distrust the sometimes greasy appearance of the skin. Yet this is a natural phenomenon, especially in store apples. The shell develops during growth because a wax that ensures that quality maintenance is: very little oxidation, unwanted intruders ... The closer the layer, the better the storage quality. The more the skin has cracks, the quicker the apple 'shrink' and loses quality.

Keep a cool apple!
Apples keep best in your fruitvak the refrigerator. So they stay longer their taste and high quality is maintained.

A vitamin C tablet?
Itself contains an apple not a lot of vitamin C. But an apple does contain a bomb in antioxidants and prove that their services as a preventive against many chronic diseases (eg cardiovascular disease and certain cancers). Indeed: an apple a day keeps the doctor away ...

Welfare rather than from diseases?
An apple is a bold and tasty snack. Something for your teeth into. Dry the apples with a dry cloth and ... enjoy. Research shows that eating one or two apples per day increases the risk of type 2 diabetes would reduce the risk of increased cholesterol levels can reduce weight and also in hand to work.

Protection against influenza
Certain substances in apples (and onions) to help us protect against the flu virus. Much has to do with the presence of quercetin, an antioxidant. This substance has anti-inflammatory properties and makes it harder flu 'sick' can make. Let us be clear: the recommended hygiene measures to prevent infection with flu, of course, remain in effect.

Apple stuffed with nuts and sour cream.
Ingredients for 1 person:

1 apple
1 tablespoon walnuts
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon honey
4 tablespoons sour cream.

Drill core from the apple peel, but not him. Make the top opening larger.
Chop the nuts coarsely and mix with the sugar. Place the apples upright in a small oven dish and fill with the fruit notes. Add the honey and leave 15 minutes cook in a preheated oven at 200 ° C.
Whisk the sour cream until fairly thick but still liquid.
Place each apple on a plate and top with a spoonful of cream alongside.

Flip applesauce with honey.
Ingredients per person:

Flandria 1 apple
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons liquid honey
1 small pot of yoghurt (cold).

Peel the apples, core and slice the flesh into pieces.
Put the chopped apple with cinnamon and 1 tablespoon water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 10 minutes with the lid on the pan.
Remove the pan from the heat, stir in the applesauce honey well and let cool.
Fill a tall glass with alternating layers of yogurt and applesauce.

Apples Tips & Tricks

Apples tips and tricks for a longer and better preservation

Apples Tips and tricks:

1. Is it true that I do not apples with other fruits may be stored?

Yes. All fruits and vegetables that ripen emit ethylene from. This is an invisible gas that is completely harmless to humans. Especially apples, kiwis and tomatoes, many of these aging dust. Other fruits that lie close to the apples, take this substance through their skin on, each one more than the other. They will spoil much faster. Therefore captures best apples in a separate sealed case of the refrigerator or on a separate scale. Ditto for kiwis. Also best to store tomatoes separately - and preferably not next to cabbage, cucumbers, broccoli, eggplant and mushrooms because they are highly susceptible to spoilage by ethylene.

3. Why do potatoes sometimes so greasy? Is that the sprays?

No. That the peel of apples 'fatty' is all about is shining a natural process. On the skin of the apple is naturally a very thin layer of wax that protects the fruit. When the apple after harvest in the heat is (eg in shops this one is not refrigerated or living room) that is flowing waxy and greasy feel of the apple. The cooler the apple kept the less it will feel greasy. Using sprays phenomenon has nothing to do. Flandria producers of apples (and other Flandria vegetables) are also very proud that they are environmentally friendly work. They convert natural enemies and use sex to attack harmful insects and pests at bay.

3. Why do potatoes sometimes so greasy? Is that the sprays?

No. That the peel of apples 'fatty' is all about is shining a natural process. On the skin of the apple is naturally a very thin layer of wax that protects the fruit. When the apple after harvest in the heat is (eg in shops this one is not refrigerated or living room) that is flowing waxy and greasy feel of the apple. The cooler the apple kept the less it will feel greasy. Using sprays phenomenon has nothing to do. Flandria producers of apples (and other Flandria vegetables) are also very proud that they are environmentally friendly work. They convert natural enemies and use sex to attack harmful insects and pests at bay.