How to store garlic

Many novice gardeners, receiving the first harvest, do not even think about how to properly save it. In particular, it concerns garlic. Some are still surprised in the need to comply with the rules of the storage of garlic. In fact, on how correct it will be prepared for storage, and will depend on the ability not to spoil throughout the winter.

This garden culture is considered to be more seasoning than full-fledged vegetable. People have long been treated to garlic, as a medicine: they took it with both a preventive purpose and the goal of a speedy recovery.

Probably, every person who has a small plot of land is necessarily growing garlic. After harvesting, you must take care of keeping it.

About problems

Depending on what kind of grade is your garlic, and it will depend on its storage. So, the spring culture will be stored longer than winter. And if you can store winter garlic without any loss, then the spring grade will begin to deteriorate with the onset of the first winter month.

What problems arise during the storage of the harvest:

1. The bulbs begin to dying. Long preservation, the bulbs of garlic are significantly losing moisture, they dry and start wrinkling. As a result, it will have to eat non-fragrant juicy cloves, but a crumpled dry mass. To avoid evaporation of moisture, you can use paraffin. Take a candle and melt it, in hot melted paraffin dip the whole heads of garlic and leave for frozen. You need to know that if you dip garlic in very hot paraffin, it can be welded. It is also desirable to wait a few seconds when the paraffin starts to cool, but only do not miss the moment "setting". Make sure that the paraffin lay down not a dense layer and a little stack. After such a procedure of garlic head, you can safely be stored.

2. Appearance of mold. Often, when storing garlic, such a problem arises as the appearance of mold. It manifests itself mainly on frozen and damaged heads. In addition to these manifestations, irregular storage conditions affect the appearance of gray plates: increased humidity and high temperature indoor. To prevent the appearance of mold, it is necessary after digging the crop well to dry it into the sun and only then send it to storage. The sun adversely affects mold and fungus.

3. The bulbs begin to germinate. When there is a question how to store garlic, many begin to talk about what they are often faced with the problem of germination of garlic. When young shoots appear, it becomes tasteless and dry. To avoid this, before sending it to storage, the bulbs are slightly "roasted." This is done as follows: The bulb is held over a gas burner included for about five seconds.

How to keep garlic in winter

These ways will allow to save garlic in the cold season:

• you can braid out of the stems of garlic braids. Such a method of storage involves in advance to harvest with stems. Of them weave the braid, and only garlic heads look out. Such braid will decorate any room;

• in addition, the heads for the winter are paraffinated, oil uses oil for storage of garlic. An ideal option will be oil from flax seeds if it is not - anyone will suit. Oil must be boiled and add iodine - 10 drops to it. Such a solution is treated with the head, then dried in the sun and sent for storage. Thanks to oil, garlic does not dry, and all its useful substances will be saved;
• also for the purpose of preservation of garlic in the cold time, it can be shielded by his flour, and then put into glass clean and dry jars. After the banks are filled with garlic, the flour layer (2 centimeters) is covered on top and they are closed with plastic lids. In this method, you must periodically open the lid and air the contents. It is also necessary to change the top layer of flour and watch it so that it does not drink moisture and not raw. If possible, flour is replaced with fresh;

• in addition, garlic can be stored in boxes. In order to put garlic heads, in a bin made of wood or plywood - poured a layer of salt, and then put the heads with rows and put the salt again. So you need to do as long as the box does not complete. By the way, instead of salt, you can use wood ashes or sawdust;

• it is not bad to survive garlic and in a linen bag or grid. In addition, you can adapt old categories for storage. And so that the heads of garlic are better preserved, they must be shifted with Low husks.

How to keep cloves

If you have separate garlic cloves, then you do not rush to say goodbye to them, they can also be stored. In order to preserve the teeth, they are cleaned of the peel. Pre-prepared a glass jar: wash and dried so that it is absolutely dry. The jar is put to the tooth and poured with oil (any: sunflower, linen, olive). The jar is covered with a lid in which there are holes. By the way, this method of storage is very convenient: in winter it is enough to get the teeth and add it to the dish. Also, in addition to the fragrance of garlic, becomes fragrant and oil itself, and it can be used to prepare salads.

How to save garlic in the apartment

If you do not have the opportunity to send garlic to the basement, that is, ways to preserve in the apartment. Where and how best to store garlic? These rules will help you throughout the winter to enjoy the extraordinary aroma of garlic:

• the place you have chosen for storage should be dark, dry and if possible not hot;
• choose such a place in the room so that it is away from the heating devices and other heating elements;
• if the winter is not frosty - garlic is allowed to leave for storage on the balcony, but provided that it is glazed and insulated;
• in addition to the balcony, if you have a small amount of garlic, you can put it in the bottom of the refrigerator;
• remember that garlic does not like the neighborhood with other vegetables.

These rules concern any varieties of garlic, but its duration of its storage will be directly dependent on how well it is dried and prepared.

On forgotten methods

And these folk methods will allow you to answer the painful question: how to store winter garlic.

These simple examples will help you always have fresh garlic:

1. Take a wooden box (for example, for vegetables with low sideboards) and put on its bottom a little wooden chips. Place garlic on top and pour into chips again. Send a box with content in a cool place.
2. The heads are well stored and in fabric bags. The fabric should be natural and dense. Put a little dry onion husk in the bag, and then put the heads. This method will be effective if you have a small amount of stocks.
3. Winter garlic is desirable to store in a warm place - in the kitchen. It is also preserved in different ways: in salts, oil, chips and "pigtail".

Our grandmothers used such a method: a linen bag was rubbed with salt or washed it with a solution (water and salt), dried and then put garlic into it.

If the storage is subject to a dozen or a little more heads, then they can be suspended with salt, ash or sawdust, and leave the container in the apartment, provided that it will not be hot in the room.

It is undesirable to leave garlic in a shopping package, as it will be deprived of the opportunity to breathe.

So, observing all the rules, you can save your crop and teach neighbors and relatives.

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