Winter garlic - moody crop in terms of storage, especially at home.
What ways housewives manage to keep it fresh before the new year?
How to prepare garlic bulbs for long-term storage, and what conditions are required for winter garlic in order for it to remain fresh and not dry?
These and other questions will be answered in our article.
Read more about how to store garlic at home and how to store it in the cellar or basement on our website.
Ways
How to save winter garlic until spring? Ways to store winter garlic at home:
- Cold method of storage (in the refrigerator, in a pasteurized jar, tightly closed lid, or in a cloth bag, treated with a solution of salt).
- Pouring heads of winter garlic salt.
- Overflowing flour.
- Overflowing onion peel.
- Some housewives use to store their winter crops. expanded vermiculitepeppered garlic heads.
Pouring garlic cloves vegetable oil.- Dipping in paraffin - Another way to prepare the heads of winter garlic for long-term storage. Paraffin-coated bulbs do not lose moisture and stay fresh for a long time.
- Braiding in pigtails.
- Storage in carton boxes, in nets, in kapron tightssimilar to the bow.
Pouring garlic cloves vegetable oil.How to keep garlic cloves in oil, you will learn from the video:
Long-term storage of garlic can also be attributed to some degree to freezing in the freezer for the winter and drying it for seasoning using fresh air or household appliances.
Training
How to prepare winter garlic for long-term storage?
Mature, not damaged (mechanically or pest) bulbs are taken for storage: only they have good keeping quality. Each should have at least 3 dense scalescovering the whole onion.
Garlic bulbs dried within 28 days, peeled from the upper contaminated scales and cut (if storage of the crop is not expected in pigtails) the stem at a height 5 cm from the head, and roots - leaving 1 centimeter. Roots, if desired, can also be plucked or burned over a gas stove, leaving only the bottom.
Tips for harvesting winter garlic and preparing it for storage in this video:
How to store winter garlic in the apartment? To keep winter garlic longer, it is recommended to process its heads boiled for 2 hours. vegetable oil with a few droplets iodine (0.5 liters of oil - 10 iodine droplets), then dry the crop outdoors.
Where to store winter garlic at home? Winter garlic is usually stored in pantryin the kitchen or in the fridge. It must be consumed first of all: unlike spring garlic, it is less suitable for long-term storage.
How to keep winter garlic at home - in which container? Poured with salt, flour, or exfoliated vermiculite, winter garlic can be stored in glass jars or pans.
Salt (flour, vermiculite) is poured on their bottom, and then a layer of garlic is put.
Layers need to alternate, while the height of the container allows. Over the last layer of garlic should be 2 cm layer. This method involves the replacement of salt several times during the winter, because with time it becomes wet.
Garlic uncut braid and decorate their kitchen walls. Just like onions, in villages, winter garlic is stored in nylon pantyhose.
Special grids for vegetables, they are convenient for storing garlic, but in them, as well as in pigtails and nylon stockings, if the storage rules are not followed, winter garlic dries out rather quickly.
Winter garlic stored in small canvas bags. And so that he does not lose moisture, pour it onion peel.
How to save winter garlic for the winter at home? The method of storage of winter garlic at home in canvas bags in this video:
Optimal conditions
How to keep winter garlic in the apartment a little longer? Temperature: +2 - +3 degrees Celsius (when stored in the refrigerator); +15 - +20 degrees Celsius (storage in the pantry or in the kitchen). Humidity: from 70 to 80 percent.
It is not recommended to store winter garlic near heating appliances: it quickly loses moisture, and the teeth become dry.
The results of the experiment on the storage of garlic in the apartment for six months in different conditions in this video:
Terms of savings
Winter garlic is difficult to maintain until spring at home. Its shelf life in an apartment is usually 4 - 5 months.
We talked about how, where and in what to store winter garlic at home.
There are many ways, but the goal of all storage methods is to prevent drying harvest.
Successfully stored only healthy, pest-free and mechanically damaged onions, which were properly grown, removed in time and carefully prepared for storage.
