Cleaning And Storing Garlic
Cleaning and storing dry garlic is super easy. Many of you guys liked my previous garlic post: Harvesting and Curing Garlic so I thought I’ll show you the final step of cleaning and storing the garlic harvest.
To remind you, I planted my garlic cloves last Fall. For us here in the South, November is the time to plant garlic. It doesn’t matter how cold the Winter is where you live, you should plant your garlic in the Fall, about two weeks before the first frost. Don’t worry about the snow, plant the cloves 1 inch deep, 4 inches apart and cover with mulch (dry Fall leaves are great and free). When Spring comes, and the temperatures start to rise, your garlic will start coming up. You’ll know when it is ready for harvest when the leaves start to brown.
Here is my garlic after three weeks or curing (you can read more about growing, harvesting, and curing garlic here ). You can see that the leaves and stems are completely dry. You can leave the garlic like that if you like, and just hang it in your house somewhere, then cut one head and use the cloves. Or you can clean it up a bit.
I start by cutting the roots as close to the base of the garlic as I can.
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