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Hello all, another garlic question I know but didn't want to hijack the other threads. I have two questions someone maybe able to help me with.
Today I have ordered Solent Wight for planting at the end of October, I still need to prepare the bed and I'm on holiday for most of that month. How should I store the garlic when it arrives until then (I was thinking of the fridge).

Secondly, presuming I get a half decent crop next year, would it be feasible to take the best one or two cloves from each bulb to save for planting the following year and if so how should I store that?

Thanks.

All I have read suggests that garlic should not be stored in the fridge. I think just somewhere cool rather than cold. (Mine hangs in the larder).

I have also read that garlic improves in a given place over time, so it would de ideal to save some of your best cloves for planting next year.

Quote from: grawrc on September 19, 2009, 08:02:36
All I have read suggests that garlic should not be stored in the fridge. I think just somewhere cool rather than cold. (Mine hangs in the larder).

I have also read that garlic improves in a given place over time, so it would de ideal to save some of your best cloves for planting next year.

Thanks for the reply, I'll do as you say and keep it in my larder. I'm glad to hear I can keep it to plant the next year, will save me some money.

Garlic needs to be stored dry, and the fridge isn't the place for that!

Quote from: Robert_Brenchley on September 19, 2009, 17:09:30
Garlic needs to be stored dry, and the fridge isn't the place for that!

Point taken, thanks.

Actually the fridge is one of the dryest places. I used to be a photocopying engineer, and we woulalways store paper in the fridg to stop it getting damp....   :-\

I wouldn't store them in the fridge as they will start sprouting - its the cold snap in winter that triggers them off!!! ;)

Temporary storage in the fridge is possibly a method used to simulate vernalisation (required for clove splitting) for spring planted garlic