How to store garlic from the garden? How to store harvested onions so that they do not rot? These questions and many more are very common. Onions and garlic, as we saw in the post on how to store potatoesafter being stored for some time, they tend to germinate.
This makes us draw on the reserves, which over time begin to bring out the first shoots and over time we can no longer use them for food. In this article we will tell you some tricks for storing harvested onions so that they do not rot and sprout and how to store garden garlic longer.
How to store harvested onions and garlic from the garden
The following methods that we are going to explain allow you to store onions and garlic for more than 3 months.
Storage tip for storing onions
One of the fairly classic methods that works perfectly is that of old stockings or tights. We put the onions stacked and separate them with a rubber band from each other.
This method works because the onions rot on contact with each other. We only need to hang them in a cool dark place, they will last much longer.
Paper bags for garlic and onions
Another method for this list of storing garden garlic and onions is in paper bags. We can use paper bags like the ones the bread comes in. Just make holes for the air to come in and put some garlic or onions for each bag. We put it in a dark and cool place, inside a box.
How to store onions and garlic harvested with the traditional method
Onion and garlic braiding is a method in which onions or garlic are intertwined. Make a kind of braid, then just hang them in a cool, dry place.
Remember that after crush the onions the stems stop growing, but they stay and wither, serving as ropes to weave them together.
How to Store Garden Garlic
After plant garlicand once recovered, you can keep them in oil in the fridge, or if you don’t want to put oil, you simply peel them and store them in a glass jar also in the fridge, although without oil they will last less, it is also an effective method.
Other things to consider
In addition to considering these elements, it is important for those starting to grow these vegetables to keep in mind the intercropping onions and garlic, not among themselves but with other vegetables, aromatic plants and others. In the case of onions, it is important to keep in mind that there are certain crops to avoid, such as peas, which, if planted with onions, both crops will grow less strongly. Neither with kidney beans, kidney beans, sage, or asparagus, as they will atrophy each other.
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