songbird wrote:
Gary Woods wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote:

Well , I got some now , how do I prep it for storage and store it

that's quick!


Keep the tops on, if your dirt is as sticky as mine, wash the bulbs
with a garden hose nozzle; spread out on a screen in the shade
until dry to the touch. Then tie up in bunches of 25 or so and hang
up in the shade (my shed has a bunch of nails in the rafters for
this), and let cure for a few weeks. Then trim and enjoy!


i did that last year and it was so much nicer than
what i'd been doing before (digging it up, laying it
out to dry and then cleaning the dirt off).

when do you take the roots off?

it's gonna be a while yet before ours is ready,
scapes are starting to plump up a little.


songbird

I read - maybe here - that it was ready when half of the leaves were browned
.. I dug up 8 today , they were all between ping-pong and golf ball size .
But today was reading to wiat until the tops were all brown . These were
planted last October ...
I'm going to have to come up with a dish that will show off the garlic ...
and I'll be using nothing but fresh for quite a while , I planted over a
hundred for the 2 of us .
--
Snag