Grandma's secret winter storage onions and garlic cloves. dry them properly

August is for me a little bit sad time, because I feel the end of the season and the arrival of autumn. Already gardeners gathered strawberries, currants, raspberries, cherries, and now ripen plums, of which make preserves, jams and compotes.

In late July, I gathered from the garden winter garlic, onion, thoroughly dry the head, and now in the middle of August, they are ready to get out of the deposit.

This summer was rainy and cool, especially disappointed by bad weather throughout July and the first decade of August. Therefore, vegetables are filled with excessive moisture. This also applies to onions and garlic. Therefore, the dry data vegetables should be longer than usual. It will be insulting, if the garlic and onions begin to deteriorate during storage, after so much effort invested, and all will be in vain.

As driers

After digging Dried onion and garlic in the barn under a canopy, in a well-ventilated place. Perot did not immediately cut off (time to onions and garlic has collected in dry weather), as after digging occurs outflow of nutrients in the bulb.

Then I remove the pen when it is already dried (10-12 days), leaving trunks 3-6 cm. Prune roots (but they can and leave), again laid on the final drying in a shed in the shed. There he finally dried for another 3 weeks.

Fife (Barrel) dries, therethrough excessive moisture derived from onions and garlic. Moreover, for efficient drying can be cleaved inner barrel.

storage Methods

First of all, I took away for storage onions and garlic cloves in the form of healthy, intact, large. Another part with the same signs save on autumn planting under winter.

You can store the onions and garlic in boxes, plastic food boxes in braided braids (the so-called bundles), old stockings, how to store even our grandmothers.

The storage room should be dry and cool.

How to make a braid (bundle) of garlic. grandma's secret

To do this, you need to take a thick needle or an awl, to pierce a pipe and fix the thick string, twine or rope.

Also, do the following bulb, having further each bulb over each other.

Head will be imposed uniformly in a spiral. With this handle even a child.

Length braids you choose yourself. This bundle can be part of the decor. Keep the braids can be on the loggia, cellar, attic, basement.

But vegetable storage before storage is best to handle a sword tobacco in order to avoid various rots. Through this means the shelf life of vegetables is increasing.

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