Choose no direct light, air circulation, soil or red brick floor of the empty house for storage room. Ground pad 5 cm thick straw or straw, will be ripe, no damage to the pumpkin pile. When stacked, keep the pumpkin next to the ground direction down, melon tip inward melon top outward yards into a cone. Each pile of 15 to 20, large melon do not pile up too much, to prevent extrusion, and conducive to ventilation. Initially, open the windows at night to ventilate the air, close the shade during the day to keep the indoor air fresh, dry and cool; close the doors and windows in winter to prevent cold.

2, rack layered storage

storage room with bamboo or angle iron with a layered storage rack, the height of each layer is higher than the pumpkin 8 to 10 centimeters. Each layer of storage racks lay 5 cm thick straw or wheat straw. Pumpkin placed in the same state and heap storage, rack layered storage effect is better than ground storage.

3, cellar low-temperature storage

The ground is padded with 5 cm thick fine sand or straw, straw, stacked 2 to 3 layers of melon; can also be put on the shelf will be pumpkin on the shelf. The temperature inside the cellar is controlled at about 10 ℃, and the relative humidity is maintained at 70% to 80%.

4, cut pumpkin

Use a spoon to scoop the scoop inside the pumpkin, seeds dig clean. Be careful not to clean the pumpkin after digging. You can evenly apply a thin layer of salt to the location of the pumpkin incision, wrap the pumpkin completely with plastic wrap, there can be no leakage, and then put it into the refrigerator freezer to chill it can be kept for a longer period of time. When you need to eat, just gently cut off the surface of the incision, and then use the same method to save it again.