How to cure garlic (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

Who else thought they meant how to cure yourself of a sickness named garlic at first

 

[RockyGoose]

I understood it as the garlic being sick, so it has to be cured.

 

[athenaaa]

What does the garlic need curing of? Do garlics have their own doctors or do they go to human doctors?

 

[Day]

How weird

 

[The_LastRomeo]

I'm so dumb lol cause I immediately thought the same thing 🤣

 

[PloryWinxyMYBlnk]

Where do you find these posts???! I'm..... genuinely curious.
Also, is cure short for curate? Hmm... :::: looks up definition :::
No, that's not it! WTF? English is hard! Or guessing about agriculture when I am not knowledgeable is hard! ::: runs away, flailing arms ::::

::: returns :::: Here's the real definition or description of curing garlic from https://keeneorganics.com/curing-garlic/.

How to cure garlic
There are many ways to cure garlic, and it is essential to get it right. Mainly, put clean garlic in an area out of the sun with good airflow. It takes about 2-3 weeks for garlic to cure completely. It can be eaten at any time after harvest although the flavor has not completely developed.


An efficient way to cure garlic
When we harvest our garlic, we brush the dirt out of the roots right away. If they are really muddy, we will cut the roots. Within 1 hour of harvest, we pull the lowest green leaf from the garlic bulb which cleans the garlic bulb. We will cut the mass of leaves off the bulb leaving about 6-9" of the stem. Next, we put the garlic bulbs about 2-3 bulbs deep in bulb crates (not too many). We store the bulb crates in our warehouse out of sunlight with a temperature of about 70-75 degrees keeping the humidity about 60% (which is hard to control). Most importantly, we have plenty of fans blowing on our garlic to keep constant airflow for about 2-3 weeks.

We do not have any mold issues by curing garlic this way. Mold is quite natural with a root crop, especially alliums. Our goal is to ship the highest quality garlic bulbs with no mold issues, and this seems to work the best.

The traditional way to cure garlic
We have also hung our garlic in bundles of 10 on ropes with about 30 bundles per rope after cleaning the garlic in the above manner. This is what has always been recommended as the best way to cure garlic especially by the "old-timers". In our region, we just had more mold issues curing this way. We see more Embellisia and Aspergillus mold on the outside of the bulb which is largely cosmetic, but it causes more time cleaning bulbs which is labor-intensive and time-consuming.

 

[Ahsoka]

Where do you find these posts???! I'm..... genuinely curious.
Also, is cure short for curate? Hmm... :::: looks up definition :::
No, that's not it! WTF? English is hard! Or guessing about agriculture when I am not knowledgeable is hard! ::: runs away, flailing arms ::::

::: returns :::: Here's the real definition or description of curing garlic from https://keeneorganics.com/curing-garlic/.

How to cure garlic
There are many ways to cure garlic, and it is essential to get it right. Mainly, put clean garlic in an area out of the sun with good airflow. It takes about 2-3 weeks for garlic to cure completely. It can be eaten at any time after harvest although the flavor has not completely developed.


An efficient way to cure garlic
When we harvest our garlic, we brush the dirt out of the roots right away. If they are really muddy, we will cut the roots. Within 1 hour of harvest, we pull the lowest green leaf from the garlic bulb which cleans the garlic bulb. We will cut the mass of leaves off the bulb leaving about 6-9" of the stem. Next, we put the garlic bulbs about 2-3 bulbs deep in bulb crates (not too many). We store the bulb crates in our warehouse out of sunlight with a temperature of about 70-75 degrees keeping the humidity about 60% (which is hard to control). Most importantly, we have plenty of fans blowing on our garlic to keep constant airflow for about 2-3 weeks.

We do not have any mold issues by curing garlic this way. Mold is quite natural with a root crop, especially alliums. Our goal is to ship the highest quality garlic bulbs with no mold issues, and this seems to work the best.

The traditional way to cure garlic
We have also hung our garlic in bundles of 10 on ropes with about 30 bundles per rope after cleaning the garlic in the above manner. This is what has always been recommended as the best way to cure garlic especially by the "old-timers". In our region, we just had more mold issues curing this way. We see more Embellisia and Aspergillus mold on the outside of the bulb which is largely cosmetic, but it causes more time cleaning bulbs which is labor-intensive and time-consuming.

I looked up how to grow garlic and saw it pop up

 

[Michael]

I understood it as the garlic being sick, so it has to be cured.