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  • First time garlic mum seeks drying help!

    Evening all

    Hope you are all well.

    Well as the title suggests I have just pulled my first lot of garlic, in true proud mum style, piccie attached ! Two smaller bulbs but three rather promising ones.

    I know that I can used these wet, but I'm a little stuck on the drying front.
    All I have is a damp garage, kitchen or plastic mini greenhouse.

    Would I get away with trying to dry the bulbs by hanging them in the mini greenhouse with the door unzipped or would I have a better chance in the kitchen ?
    All ideas welcomed!
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  • #2
    I didn't get any garlic (again) but I've put my onions out to dry inside the plastic greenhouse

    Kitchens can get quite moist?
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      That's what I was wondering Two Sheds, particularly as mine is so tiny.

      Do you hang them in the greenhouse, or just lay them on the shelves?

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      • #4
        I put mine on mini-greenhouse shelves in the garden when it's dry and sunny and (hopefully) bring them inside before the rain starts. The staging lives on the "patio" and is used as a stand for hardening off various plants - couldn't be bothered to buy yet another useless plastic cover for it, but it's proving very useful as it is.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Bagpuss View Post

          Do you hang them in the greenhouse, or just lay them on the shelves?
          No room to hang them in a plastic greenhouse, I just leave them in trays for a week or two to dry out, then I plait them and hang them in the shed (although it got a bit damp last year, so I had to bring them in the house in spring)
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            I think I will be pulling up my garlic in the next few days - is it okay to peel off the mucky layers then dry it?
            Happy Gardening,
            Shirley

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            • #7
              Originally posted by shirlthegirl43 View Post
              I think I will be pulling up my garlic in the next few days - is it okay to peel off the mucky layers then dry it?
              Hi

              I would leave the outer skins - let the bulbs dry 'au naturel' and then the soil can simply be dusted off.

              Alternatively, run the just lifted bulbs under a tap/bucket, and then leave then to dry out
              Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity

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              • #8
                Thanks for that.
                Happy Gardening,
                Shirley

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                • #9
                  Bless my better half. Thinking he was doing the right thing, I've come home to find all of the leaves cut off so I can't have a go at plaiting them, and he's scrubbed them under water to get rid of the dirt. I managed to smile - just!

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                  • #10
                    Thats real "love is" but, could'nt you kill!

                    And when your back stops aching,
                    And your hands begin to harden.
                    You will find yourself a partner,
                    In the glory of the garden.

                    Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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                    • #11
                      Absolutely Bramble !

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