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RE: Garlic Beds and Drying Garlic Heads.
Store them after the covering feels like paper. Garlic comes in different colors, soft neck is white and the hard neck is German red garlic. The paper like covering can be a variety of colors depending on the variety. I leave mine hanging in a brown bag in the drying room. You want to store them out of the light, away from moisture and there is some air circulation. You can put the bulbs in nylon stockings and hang them in a dark dry place too. That's how my grandma dried walnuts after she blanched them. It works for garlic too! I had enough room o grow a huge amount of garlic, I give the braids as Christmas presents.
Thank you for the info. they have been with the dry paper like skin for a bit. I will move them into the spice drawer with the other garlic now that I know that. They were grown off of an old elephant garlic I had last year that sprouted. when you get to he last layer of wrapper they are a red/purple.
The garlic braids are so amazing! Next year I'm hoping to grow enough to make a couple braids myself.
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I buy garlic in the store for my garden all the time, I also save a lot of seeds from veggies and fruit I buy. I also save my garden seeds, I let the best plants go to seed instead of eating them. Now when I do buy garden seed, it is only seeds from plants I haven't grown before. I share seeds too ;-)
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I do the same, my family gets annoyed at the bags of seeds everywhere.
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