First time garlic mum seeks drying help!

[Bagpuss]

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!

[Two_Sheds]

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?

[Bagpuss]

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?

[rustylady]

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.

[Two_Sheds]

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)

[shirlthegirl43]

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?

[Skotch]

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

[shirlthegirl43]

Thanks for that.

[Bagpuss]

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!

[bramble]

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

[Bagpuss]

Absolutely Bramble !