Garlic – respected medicinal vegetable and one of my favorite seasonings for various dishes. His farming is very simple, and to get a good harvest can even novice gardeners.
But to grow fragrant bulbs – this is only half the battle. How to store garlic in the winter in the home, to harvest enough for next year?
Winter or spring?
To ensure vegetables good keeping quality, it is very important to remove them in due time. You can't dig immature follicles, but also to delay the collection is not worth it.
Garlic comes in two types: winter and spring. Winter, as the name implies, are planted before winter. He arrives early, in the middle of summer. Arrows usually break out, but for the determination of ripeness can be left on the plants a few pieces. As soon as the shell burst and seem bullocki – it is time to dig.
With spring garlic shooter no. When to dig and how to store garlic in the winter at home? Harvesting begins when the feather fell. If there are doubts about the maturity, you can dig out one head and look at the condition of the scales. If they are dried and crisp, the garlic has matured.
It is necessary to Dig in dry weather, gently scraping the ground and avoiding damage to the follicles. Next, the garlic must be well dried, not cutting off the leaves. It is spread in the sun or in a ventilated room and dried 1-2 weeks. Then the roots and stems are cut, the bulbs are sorted.
Where to store garlic?
The Optimum temperature for storage – low positive temperatures (+ 1 to 50C) and relative humidity of 70%. Such conditions can be created in ventilated cellars or in attics. In a city apartment may be stored in a dark, dry place at a temperature of up to +200C.
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To save the garlic until the spring, it can be placed in a heavy plastic bag, wrap in several layers of paper and remains on the site. Top place must be covered with plant remains. Garlic needs to be well preserved, but to get it will be possible only when the snow melts.
How to store garlic for the winter?
In the home is widely used in two ways:
How to store garlic in the winter in the home, if the integrity of the covering of scales broken, or there is simply no suitable place?
Who gonna eat first?
How to store garlic in the winter, so he dried up and was not damaged until the next harvest? The maximum period of use is short, only 8 months old. And in warm air it is reduced by almost half. If assembled and autumn, and summer garlic, then first it is necessary to use winter. Put it into blanks and used as food in the first place. Spring garlic is more suitable for long-term storage, and in dry cool area may persist until the following summer.
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