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"Pat Kiewicz" <kiewicz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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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