autumn we harvest from your garden and have an opportunity to buy relatively inexpensive almost any fruit and vegetables that grow in our region.How to keep the garlic in the home in the winter?There are different ways, among which everyone can find the most suitable for your kitchen.
How to remove the garlic and prepared for storage?
When you need to start cleaning this culture?It all depends on the variety grown garlic, usually mid-late fall.Before you dig up the entire crop carefully evaluated several heads, enough thick envelope from cloves.If enough time, and you can taste the garlic.The crop is in dry weather.Dig garlic can be using a shovel or a pitchfork.How long should leave the stems?If you have not yet decided how to store garlic at home, leave the base of the arrow by 15 centimeters.Unearthed head should be left to dry for about 10 days.You can keep them in the garage or enclosed terrace.Once the garlic is dry, it's time to trim the roots and stems to the desired length.
How to store garlic at home: all the ways
The easiest option - to prepare a cardboard or wooden box of suitable size and placed inside the heads of garlic.It is desirable to first filter the large and then small, as they are kept longer.The traditional rural way of storing garlic - pigtails.Braid them quite easy enough to gather a few heads in bundles and start twisting them together tightly tightening.If you do not have enough length of the stems, use a rope or braided any foundation.You can store this vegetable and fabric bags.To protect the head from the top of the tissue decay is recommended to wear a plastic bag.
There are other ways to keep the garlic in the home.You can preserve it.The most popular version of the premises or cloves heads in brine or regular sunflower oil.But remember, banks with garlic should be stored in the refrigerator.Some housewives prefer to freeze or dry ground cloves.The idea is not bad, but if you plan to store the chopped garlic in the refrigerator, divide it into single servings, using tiny bags or molds for ice.
How to save the harvest until spring?
How better to keep the garlic in the winter -reshat only to you, all the methods described above with the full implementation effective.They are afraid of spicy head moisture, store them in a dry, well-ventilated rooms is desired.Watch and temperature conditions.If the thermometer drops below zero, your harvest will be lost.It is for this reason not warmed balcony is not suitable for storage of vegetables.It is advisable to place the head in the house or apartment, but the fit and dry cellar.There is another interesting way of how best to store garlic.Melt some household candles in a large container and dip it in every head.Now, garlic can be expanded in boxes or cans, and take as needed.The wax will protect the head against moisture and, during cleaning of teeth will be completely removed.
