In order to always have fresh, healthy and tasty garlic at home, it is important to grow it and preserve it well until spring. You can braid the garlic, thereby grouping the storage of the harvest in one place, hanging it in the kitchen or in the pantry on the wall. In this way, the woven garlic will always be visible and spoiling heads will be visible.
How to tie garlic in a braid for storage and other ways to overwinter the crop
There are many ways to store winter garlic grown in garden beds:
- Sprinkling with salt.
- Dipping the heads in paraffin.
- Storage in nylon stockings.
- Cardboard, wooden boxes.
- Birch bark baskets.
- Glass jars.
- Drying cloves for seasoning.
- Marinating the cloves.
But braiding garlic is the most practical and decorative way to overwinter the crop. During the cultivation of this crop, they came up with a huge number of ways to weave braids from bulbous plants. Let's look at some of them.
How to weave garlic braids?
The main work occurs with the help of plant stems, which are not completely cut off after drying. You should leave about 30 centimeters. To tie tightly, use additional devices.
- rope;
- leg-split;
- wire.
Method one
To weave braids from onion bulbs, the fruits along with the stems are dried for a week; the tops should not dry out or break.. Preparing fruits involves cleaning them from dirt, husks and removing excess foliage from the tops. Next, trim the stem to 30 cm in length. Garlic fruits are chosen of the same size, so the braid will look beautiful:
- We take twine about 1.5 meters long and fold it in half. We choose a large and beautiful head. Weaving patterns are the same as in a regular braid.
- We tie the stem at the base with twine so that we have 3 ends, two from the twine and one from the stem of the plant.
- We attach the second fruit to the twine and begin to braid the braid, gradually adding one to each end. If it becomes difficult to weave, remove the tops from the first vegetables.
- At the end of the weaving, the braid is tied with the ends of the twine and the tops are cut off. Tie the ring together with twine and hang the garlic braid in your kitchen or other space.
Second weaving method
We tie the vegetables together in two pieces:
- Take a rope 1.5 meters long and fold it in half.
- We tie the first, large head with a rope near the base.In this case, the two ends remain the same length, and in the middle is the fruit.
- Next, we place two onions one by one on the first fruit so that the cut results in 4 heads.
- After 4-5 layers we tie a knot in the middle with a rope. In this way we weave and form a braid of the required length. At the end we fix it with knots for strength. We cut off the excess tops and use a rope to make a loop.
This makes a very beautiful braid. It is decorated by weaving in dried flowers.
Third way
We choose vegetables of the same size with stems 15 centimeters long. They should not be too dry - it will be difficult to braid into a rope:
- We take a tourniquet or twine and tie a knot in the middle. We insert the tops there and tie them at the base. The two ends remain free. We weave the stem into two ropes in a zigzag.
- The next fruit is also inserted and a knot is tied to secure it. This is how the braid of the required length is woven. It is important to weave the tops and tighten them tightly, but avoid breaking the stem.
In this way, the connected heads are stored in full view of the owners - it is easy to check its condition. Performs an excellent decorative function indoors.
