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My current set up is that my garlic (and onions) are drying on the top shelf of my blowaway as my house lacks ventilation (pesky new builds) and it's raining too much to leave them out. The door of the blowaway is wide open and they are drying nicely.
However, the blowaway is also home to my tomatoes, in pots on the ground level, with the top foliage just growing up through the top shelf at the moment (impossible to remove them if you need to but works well to support the plant in the absence of stakes). Garlic is a pesticide, we know it's good against slugs and aphids when applied to the ground/foliage etc., but does it's very presence in bulb form enough to put pollinators off do you think? I suppose something has to pollinate garlic flowers after all...
More curious that anything - I only have about 11 plants and barely any are bothering to flower so can tap the flowers to aid pollination.
However, the blowaway is also home to my tomatoes, in pots on the ground level, with the top foliage just growing up through the top shelf at the moment (impossible to remove them if you need to but works well to support the plant in the absence of stakes). Garlic is a pesticide, we know it's good against slugs and aphids when applied to the ground/foliage etc., but does it's very presence in bulb form enough to put pollinators off do you think? I suppose something has to pollinate garlic flowers after all...
More curious that anything - I only have about 11 plants and barely any are bothering to flower so can tap the flowers to aid pollination.
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