When you need to remove the garlic, and how to save the harvest

When to harvest garlic and how to save the harvest? The answers you will find in this article.

When to harvest garlic

If the arrow to the bulb straightened, it is a signal that it's time to dig out the garlic. If the arrow with a head still bent, the bulbs in the ground until ripen. Carefully take out the garlic out of the soil, do not need obstukivat land bare hands, remove it gently with a bulb. Any micro-cracks can lead to decay.

storage Methods

Garlic dug, now you need to send it for storage. What to do to keep it as fresh and as hard as after digging?

The first method is suitable for the storage of a private house. Garlic to dig a little to dry off in the street or in a shed. Further crop roots and stem (from the bulb base leave 2-3 cm). Then put to dry in the attic of a private house until mid-September.

Then we can take a cardboard or wooden box or use fruit grid and fill them to the top. Wrap the old warm clothes (old jackets, warm jackets, blankets). This cover will protect your crops from frost to minus 20-25 degrees. If the temperature falls below these figures, it is better to put the garlic into the basement or at the time of place in the house. Such a method will make it possible to maintain the garlic until spring.

If you live in an apartment, you'll like another way. Take the usual bank of 3 liters and filled with garlic. To put it on the balcony and wrap old coat or blanket. The boxes can also be stored on the balcony.

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