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how to cure garlic 🧄 so it lasts all winter
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Can you believe I just finished up the last of the garlic that I grew LAST summer?! And it was still perfectly good, firm, and flavorful like the day I harvested it. That's nearly 11 months in storage in my garage, piled into mesh bags and placed on a wire shelf. What's even better is that I'm only about three weeks away from my next garlic harvest, so I'm pretty dang pleased that I only have to buy a couple heads of garlic before that happens. 😄 If you planted garlic last fall, chances are your garlic crop is pretty much ready—or almost ready—to harvest. (You can tell when it's time by looking at the leaves.) But once it's out of the ground, how do you make it last all winter—and even into spring and summer? Did you know garlic can actually keep for several months and still taste as fresh as the day you picked it? The key lies in curing: a simple process of tightening up the skins, toughening up the bulbs, and drying out your garlic completely so it can be stored. Don't wash them. Don't cut the leaves off too early. You want to give time for the garlic to properly cure. Here's how you do that (and how best to store the bulbs so they actually last without sprouting). Seasonal tipsSeed sales going on right nowSpeaking of garlic, Peaceful Valley has a really nice selection of seed garlic on sale right now. If you haven't preordered your seed garlic yet and want to try something new, Peaceful Valley is offering 20% off sidewide through June 23. Use the deal for garlic or stock up on seeds for mid-summer planting. Botanical Interests also has seed garlic for sale AND they're running an end-of-season sale where you can score seeds for up to 50% off! I just ordered some of my favorites:
The seeds are going fast though—a couple of mine sold out after I saved them to my cart for a day. So don't wait too long to order! P.S. Learn how to make your garlic last for months by curing it properly. P.P.S. I wrote a whole guide on how to store your other produce properly after you harvest or buy them. Don't let your efforts or money go to waste!
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Garden Betty
For people who want to grow more food with less work. 🌱 This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribers—here's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."