Grey Duck Garlic

Garlic Storage

Garlic is a living plant. Storage length of garlic depends on your storage conditions. To keep garlic for the longest storage time, place garlic in a cool (50-65ºF) dry area such as an unheated room. Do not store garlic in plastic or air tight containers or garlic will mold, rot or try to grow.

Do not freeze garlic if you want to plant it later (freezing will kill the bulb). Garlic can easily survive freezing IF it is in the ground and growing roots but not if it is in the freezer.

For best results store garlic in a paper bag or loose in a cardboard box in a cool area (between 47-60 F). Garlic needs to be in a well ventilated area.

Places garlic will rot:

• On top of refrigerator

• In air tight containers

• In plastic bags

• By heaters

• In trunk of car

• Near a fireplace

• By the jet engines of your private plane

Places garlic will grow or sprout:

• Refrigerator

• Any area that where temperature dips below 45 F

• Outside

• In a pot

• In the soil (which is where you want it to sprout!)

Garlic Varieties and Storage

Some garlic varieties store longer than others. The longest storing garlic we grow is Thermadrone. It can last over 9 months under ideal conditions (we have had some last 9 months under really poor conditions). Chesnok Red is also a long storing garlic. Georgian Crystal and Romanian Red are good storing garlic under ideal conditions.

 

 

 

 

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