How to store garlic, that he spent the whole winter
Educational Program Food / / December 19, 2019
How to prepare garlic for storage
If you bought the garlic in the store or on the market, immediately remove it for storage. He sold already cut off and the dried, so additional training is required.
If you yourself are growing garlic, after the harvest, it must be dried. Leave dug vegetables on the ground for a few hours, so they dried up a bit.
Then link together several heads and hang vertically in the shade or in a dry ventilated room for 10-15 days. It may take longer, up to a month. Garlic need to properly dry: the stem should get rid of the moisture and peel - easy to withdraw.
After drying, the need to trim the stem, leaving 5-8 cm, and roots, and to clean off the upper arms husk.
Then you need to be expanded garlic ventilated at the surface and again to give him lie down a couple of days. Some clean its deposit immediately after cutting the stem, but still better to wait a little longer. Poor the dried garlic will not long remain usable.
How and where to store garlic
Choose dry darkened not too hot, but not very cold place. Garlic can be stored at home at room temperature. Cellar or shed suitable only if there is damp and cold.
The way will be well stored garlic, depends on many factors: the varieties, proper preparation, temperature and humidity in the room.
On all the following methods have a lot of good reviews, but there are also negative. Just because of the difference in these conditions. So it is necessary to select the appropriate method experimentally.
How to keep the garlic in the pot
Take dry sterilized three-liter jar. Not too tightly packed to heads of garlic. You do not need to close the container.
Banks with garlic stored, for example, in the kitchen cupboard - on the lower shelves or under the sink.
How to keep the garlic in a box
Put the garlic in plastic boxes with mesh walls. They can be supplied, for example, under the table, under the bed, under the sink in the kitchen or pantry.
How to store garlic in nylon stockings or pantyhose
Through them good air passes, which is important for the storage of vegetables. Fill the stockings or tights garlic, tie the top and hang. For the convenience of tights can be cut at the top.
How to store the garlic in a grid or pouch
If the nylon does not suit you, use it instead of the mesh or canvas bags. Grid is necessary for something to hang, and a bag of linen can be put on the floor or shelf.
How to keep the garlic in the queue
Braided in a braid of garlic - it is not only convenient, but also unusual and beautiful. It can even hang in a prominent place darkened, if it fits in interior.
Note that for the braids need to leave a long stem portion - about 20 cm. Here is a good master class in weaving:
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