AAaron123 said:
>
Yeesh! I was in the process of responding when my news server went down
for a couple of days! So anyway, as I was planning to say then...
>We store our garlic during the winter in the garage (central NY) zone 4
and
>I wonder which keeps better.
>
My softnecks last longer in admittedly less than ideal storage (too
warm).
The hardnecks are much more likely to shrivel and/or develop brown spots.
So I use the hardnecks first.
>
>I'm pretty sure we grow hard stem. The wrappings around the outside of
the
>bulb is thin and often split so they are not as nice looking as what the
>stores sell. Is that typical of hard stem varieties?
As Gary Woods explained, you are not harvesting them at the proper time.
There must still be some green leaves when you pull them in order to
have nice, tight wrapper layers.
But even knowing that, the softnecks I grow seem to be "better wrapped"
and more completely wrapped, without a "neck" sticking out.
--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)
After enlightenment, the laundry.
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