Garlic dry the winter after the harvest. Save up to spring

After July 20 (or even earlier), many have started to clean the garlic. Especially the weather in central costs rainy, it may rot if not timely remove the head. How to dry and store the garlic until spring?

primary drying

The weather was sunny couple of days, so many gardeners and gardeners have time to dry garlic. In the garden I have it is 4-5 hours in the sun to evaporate excess moisture. This so-called primary drying.

secondary drying

Then comes the secondary drying. Garlic is placed under a canopy in the shade, in a well-ventilated place.

There he lies and dry for 10-12 days. Thereafter crop the aboveground portion, leaving the head of 3-6 cm.

Also crop roots.

final drying

This is followed by final drying. Stalks should be circumcised to evaporate the moisture. Final drying is carried out to three or four weeks, depending on weather. The entire process also final drying takes place under cover, out of direct sunlight. After this drying garlic acquire dry form.

test storage

Take a few heads of garlic (10 pieces) and place them in the grid so that they are firmly in contact with each other. Place the bulbs in a closed room. If a couple of days you will feel unpleasant smells (most likely, the process of decay), the garlic you need to dry for another 5-6 days. But overdry garlic is also impossible, because it affects the future of storage.

How to store and preserve until the spring

Receive plastic (or cardboard boxes) boxes and fill them garlic brim and store them in the attic. Prior to joining the first frost of covering the container with warm clothes heads (old jackets or blanket). In this case, you need to wrap the boxes completely, not just the cover.

Garlic during such storage can withstand temperatures up to minus 25 degrees. At lower temperatures it is desirable to place garlic in a warm place. And then again attributed to the attic.

In the conditions of the apartment Garlic can be placed on the glazed and insulated balcony in boxes without direct sunlight. You also need to wrap up warm clothes during cold weather.

Spring cover tidy, so he did not start to germinate.

It is important that the storage was not a high level of humidity.

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