Storing Garlic

[andyhol]

Hi all,
Have just harvested my garlic. Best ever crop but would like to try new storage techniques as spce in shed limited for usual tie and hang. Any suggestions would be very welcome. I believe it can be frozen,pureed etc but have no info about it.

[quark1]

I may be corrected here - but I harvested quite a haul 2 years ago and haven't quite exhausted it yet - (for heavens sake don't tell my son).

Pull up and allow to dry - either as bunched 'hang-down' arrangemts - or just trim and place in bowl like I did.

No way did I expect said garlic to last beyond first year but they did and they are still edible! Not just playing the game and disguising as some of us mums have to do but truly OK eating.!

Incredible what nature offers us - if we dare to take!

[beckybee]

We have dried most of our garlic, but some of the bulbs had been nibbled - so I salvaged what I could, chopped finely in a food processor. Put half in a jam jar covered in olive oil and the rest with butter. Tastes great and good for those lazy cooking days. Reckon each will last a while and the butter can also go in the freezer.

[Stacey Steve]

OH puts it through the mincer, bottles it with white wine vinegar to use like "lazy garlic"

[gojiberry]

You can chop, crush or mince and then keep in either oil, vinegar or butter. It will only keep as long as the oil or butter stays good, butter and oil can go rancid after a period of time. As Beckybee says you can put butter in the freezer. I have a small porch on my kitchen and I just string mine and hang it on a nail by the outer back door (handy for the kitchen).

Ian

[vegnut]

I suppose you could trim them and put them in an onion sack, if that saves space somehow. Or just make cream of garlic soup and freeze in portions YUM.

[andyhol]

Thanks to all, Food for thought as they say I'll be trying all.