Hanging garlic

[Jeannine]

 When  hanging them to dry out do you have the bulbs down or up.

The more I read on this subject the more I realise there doesn't seem to be an official answer

XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

[Jayb]

I usually tie the stems together and hang in bunches in the polytunnel until dry. No idea if it's right or wrong but seems to work well for me  :)

[Ninnyscrops.]

Not a right or a wrong way, I think just space available Jeannine.

I put my bulbs root up on the slats in the greenhouse with the leaves downwards to dry for a week or two before plaiting and hanging bulb downwards for the rest of the year. The shallots are just spread across them as they are too small for the slats. Onions I'll prep the same as the garlic.

Ninny x

[kippers garden]

I lay mine flat over some thick wire mesh in the greenhouse or polytunnel and it seeds to work

[goodlife]

Mine are lying flat too and I've always done it that way..they've always dried and stored well.

[Jeannine]

Well mine are haning on my covered balcony in bunches bulbs down I bunch for each of the 24 varieties!! It is going to be an intersting taste test soon.

I wonder which one will be the one picked for next year.

XX Jeannine

[Ninnyscrops.]

24 varieties, the French will be after you Jeannine  :o  ;D

Seriously, that's a lot of tasting to do and a difficult choice to make as you will need to see how the flavours differ after storing for a year bearing in mind your best should be back in the plot in November.

Ninny

[gavinjconway]

I bunch for each of the 24 varieties!!

xx Jeannine

And I thought I was going overboard with 104 plants with 4 varieties!! I have had to pull them early as the stalks have all bent over and some of the cloves have also shot out foliage.. I'm drying them in the GH and then will possibly slice and flash freeze ...

[Jeannine]

I didn't intend to grow so many but I couldn;t remember the variety I used to gtow before we went over to the UK so I bought 1 bulb of r4 different rombacole varieties.

It has been interesting pulling them, Some are quite small while others are huge.

In case anyone is interested this is what they are

Alisons
Baba Franchuks
Chinese
Chuck
Colorado Black
Czech
Czech Red
Denman
French Rocambole
German Brown
German Red
Italian Purple
Killarney Red
Korean Purple
Marino
Mountain Top
Paul Von Baich
Purple Max
Puslinch
Salt Spring Select
Spanish Roja
Spicy Korean red
Ukranian
Ukranian Hot
Colony Farm.. I call it this as it has been gown here on our community gardens for years and has no name, well used to our cinditions it grows very wee.

Do you all have access to the same numbers of varieties over there I cant remember.

Does anyone know anything about anby of these.

I guess it is nit te same as tomatoes  but just hoping

XX Jeannine

[chriscross1966]

THere's about a dozen varieties easily available in this country .... I'm lucky that my rather gritty soil isn't too bad for it, but i have to grow it at home due to white rot on my allotment (might have found a way round that, fingers crossed)  Biggest issue in this country is wet, not cold winters...

[Jeannine]

It is the same here, wet not cold winters Chriss. XX Jeannine