Episode 335. How can we preserve our garlic? - a podcast by Richard

In today's podcast, I am asking how can we preserve our garlic and I have had a productive day on the allotment.



A transcript of the podcast is available below.How can we preserve our garlic?



Today I harvested my garlic. I've had a pretty good harvest surprisingly. However, as someone that hates waste, I am wondering what could I do to make sure every single garlic clove gets used in the kitchen.



Usually, I hang my garlic in my garage and most last a year but a few do not make it and start to go off. This leads me to believe that preserving garlic might be the answer and so I have researched several ways to preserve garlic includingFreezingPreserving in vinegarPreserving in oildrying.



All of which I am going to try this year. If you have any methods to preserve garlic then let me know.Episode 335 Transcript



Intro tuneHello and welcome to episode 335 of the veg grower podcast. My names Richard and I am on a mission to grow as much food as I can in my allotment and garden. Today is Thursday the 18th June 2020



Coming up a little later on I shall be talking about how we can store our garlic harvests on the hope that we can then make our homegrown garlic last till next year. But first what have I been up to today.



Music fadeIts Thursday the 18th June 2020 today. I’m down on the allotment, I’ve just jumped into the shed because the winds just started to pick up.



I’ve spent a few hours down on the allotment today getting quite a bit done but I’ll start at home today. When I got up this morning it was quite evident we had rain overnight which is very very welcome and also means I don’t have to worry about watering either the allotment or the garden today.Now another thing that happened at home today before I left is that one of my quails hatched. This is my second batch of eggs this year and one has hatched and there’s a second one on its way so who knows when I get home I might have 2 baby quails. Maybe more who knows. Quite glad about that because my new incubator has turned up just the other day. So that’ll mean next month I can put that through its tests.



Anyway, I came down the allotment this morning. I waited till about 10 o clock when the rain had stopped and I’ve been rather productive.The first task was to harvest my garlic. Now my garlic got attacked by leak rust and I thought it wasn’t going to grow into any really big bulbs and I wasn’t going to get a good result out of it. Well, actually the bulbs haven't done too bad. A few small ones, a few average size ones and a few large bulbs. I’ve harvested them all they are in the greenhouse where they will dry out and I’m really pleased with it. And I'll look at preserving them when I get home.



Now after that I pulled my lawnmower out the shed and this was having a bit of difficulty getting going for some reason but got it going after a while. (chuckle to me) this how thing about petrol lawnmowers again this debate and conflict I have within myself.I I I erm cut up all my weeds did a bit more weeding and cut those up and then I went around the grass areas collecting grass clippings to mulch my sweet potatoes. Now I’ve only covered about two-thirds of my sweet potato with the grass clippings now.



The grass hasn’t really grown all that much recently due to such warm weather we’ve had. So not a huge amount of grass clippings available but what I have got I’ve collected and I’ve used that as a mulch which should hopefully make all the difference. Now we are expecting rain again over the next few days. So who knows that rain might just spur the grass on and mean that next week I might have to run around with the lawnmower yet again and get even more grass clippings.Now after that I did a bit of tidying up and I’ve planted some gherkin plants into larger pots. Just in pots on the ground. Just using up space where I can.



And really that is what I’ve been up today, so quite productive,

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