You have gathered the harvest of garlic and asked a logical question: how do you keep the fruits of their labor for a long time? Indeed, if you do not create favorable conditions for storage, the garlic will soon begin to deteriorate. So what are the ways of storing this product exist? We have collected for you all of the most effective on the advice of experienced gardeners.
The duration of storage is significantly affected by the garlic variety. Surely, you know that there are two varieties of spring (spring vegetable planting) and winter (vegetable planting in the fall). So for long-term storage, more than six months, suitable spring and winter as you do not try, the new year will begin to grow slowly.
Garlic can be stored in a warm room, and in the cold, and spring varieties well adapted to keeping warm in a temperature range from + 16 ° C to + 20 ° C, and the likes cool winter from + 2 ° C to + 5 ° C.
How to keep warm garlic
- In banks. Glass jars washed, sterilized and dried. If you want, the bank put the whole head of garlic garlic is pre-dried to lay as long as possible in the fresh form. To fill the jar tightly, vegetables, divide into individual cloves, but in this case, the garlic will be kept a little lower. After filling the jar closed with a plastic lid. Experienced gardeners often when selected storage method in banks pour garlic wetness materials: salt, flour, sawdust, etc... In banks, the product is stored for about three months.
- In food film. each head of garlic wrap film at least twice and placed in a refrigerator. Garlic is kept for at least six months.
- In paraffin. This is a fairly time-consuming method of storage, but the result will make you happy, because the product is stored in a fresh six - seven months. Melt the wax and holding the stem, dip a head of garlic in a mortar. After the product has cooled down, laid out in a convenient container for you.
- The pouches of fabric or nylon pantyhose. Before laying of garlic in the bag or stocking desirable to impregnate or vegetable or packaging a concentrated brine. Salt deliver product from such troubles as mold and bacteria. In this way, the garlic will be stored five - six months.
- In pigtails or beams. Well dried garlic with stalks or associate in bundles or braids weave of stems, and hung in a convenient location. So the product will be stored for about six months.
- The boxes and cartons. In a box or a box put the dried garlic with a cut off the stem. Just as in the embodiment with vegetable banks can intersperse moisture resistant materials.
- The vacuum-packed. Vegetable cleanse is divided into cloves, put into a vacuum packaging and send it in the refrigerator. storage for up to four months.
How to keep the garlic in a cool room
- In bundles or braids.
- The bags made of fabric, mesh or nylon pantyhose.
- In boxes.
An important tip! This vegetable crop does not like light and moisture.
Still it is necessary to consider that when such methods of storage in drawers, baskets, bags should be good air ventilation.
Now you are armed with all the necessary knowledge for the storage of garlic, well and in what way to choose up to you.