Preserving Your Garlic Crop?

I freeze mine and have no problem.

kidsNclutter

June 27, 20050 found this helpful

Just harvest the garlic cloves, brush off dirt, hang in a mesh bag (like onions come in) in a dry warm place w/ good air circulation. The cloves will dry & remain usable for over a year (at least mine are still good...)

My garlic lasts only 6 months, I pick it just after Xmas usually and now July8 it has mostly shot. I plant it as it shoots. I also use the green tops from early planted garlic in cooking. I have an abundance of the stuff as I just LOVE it. Fried rice with fried garlic plus handfuls of chopped garlic tops , and a bit of rocket just for variety,and chilli for breakfast is great! I would also like to find a way to encourage the garlic to keep for longer. I miss roasted garlic for the other 6 months of the year. I am going to try drying it next year. I have heard that this gives the closest flavour to fresh garlic. I will try this using the food dehydrator. I think I should have enough. I have about 2000 plants in, so this should just about keep me going.

Hi
i was recently on vacation in Majorca and purchased some garlic at a local street market It seem to have been preserved in brine ( salt water)

Thansk
Mel

Susan Sanders-Kinzel
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August 14, 20060 found this helpful

Here's a link with a .pdf about preserving garlic. They include a recipe for pickling of garlic which might be what you had in Majorca, Mel.

extension.oregonstate.edu/.../50-645.pdf

My parents have always advocated peeling garlic and putting it into a jar of olive oil. Your garlic won't be 100% fresh, but you will have an infused oil.

READ warnings about preserving garlic in oil.
Just google Botulism garlic oil fda.
Or here's an article.
www.fda.gov/.../ANS00523.html

Looking for a recipe, to can garlic cloves in olive oil.
Or the best way, to keep garlic cloves for cooking all year round.

I planted garlic for the first time last Fall. Wow, what a difference from store-bought. I pulled mine up last Spring, brushed the loose dirt off and hung it by the long shoots in my basement. They are still quite good. I'm going to try "kidsNclutter's" idea next year and see if it will work better.

"Just harvest the garlic cloves, brush off dirt, hang in a mesh bag (like onions come in) in a dry warm place w/ good air circulation. The cloves will dry & remain usable for over a year (at least mine are still good...)"
Thanks for the hints. :-)