How to tie and braid garlic for storage according to the pattern?

In order to always have fresh, healthy and tasty garlic at home, it is important to grow it and keep it high quality until spring. You can braid the garlic in a braid, thereby grouping the storage of the crop in one place, hanging it in the kitchen or in the pantry on the wall. Thus, the woven garlic will always be in sight and spoiled heads are noticeable.

How to tie garlic in a braid for storage and other ways of wintering the crop

There are many ways to store garden-grown winter garlic:

• Sprinkle with salt.
• Dipping heads in paraffin.
• Storage in nylon stockings.
• Cardboard, wooden boxes.
• Birch bark baskets.
• Glass jars.
• Drying the cloves for seasoning.
• Pickling cloves.

But braiding garlic in braids is the most practical and decorative way of wintering a crop. During the cultivation of this culture, a huge number of ways of weaving braids from bulbous plants were invented. Let's consider some of them.

How to weave garlic braids?

The main work takes place with the help of plant stems, which are not completely cut off after drying. Leave about 30 centimeters. To bind tightly, use additional devices.

1. rope;
2. twine;
3. wire.

Method one

To weave braids from bulbous, the fruits are dried together with the stems for a week, the tops should not dry out and break... Fruit preparation consists in cleaning of dirt, husks and removing excess foliage from the tops. Next, trim the stem to a length of 30 cm. Garlic fruits are chosen the same size, so the pigtail will look beautiful:

1. We take a twine about 1.5 meters long, fold it in half. Choosing a large and beautiful head. Weaving patterns, as in a regular braid.
2. We tie the stem at the base with twine so that we get 3 ends, two from the twine and one from the plant stem.
3. We apply 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.
4. At the end of weaving, the braid is tied with the ends of the twine and the tops are cut off. Tie the ring with twine and hang the garlic pigtail in the kitchen or elsewhere.

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Description of the variety of garlic Lyubasha, recommendations for growing

The second weaving method

We tie vegetables together in two pieces:

1. We take a rope 1.5 meters long, fold it in half.
2. We tie the first, large head with a rope near the base. In this case, the two ends remain the same length, and the fruit in the middle.
3. Next, put two onions alternately on the first fruit, so that you get 4 heads in the cut.
4. After 4-5 layers, knit a knot in the middle with a rope. Thus, we carry out weaving and form a braid of the desired length.At the end we fix with knots for the fortress. We cut off the excess tops and make a loop with the help of a rope.

This makes a very beautiful pigtail. It is decorated by interweaving dry flowers.

Third way

Choose vegetables of the same size with the stems, 15 centimeters long. They should not be overdried - it will be difficult to braid into a rope:

1. We take a tourniquet or twine, tie a knot in the middle. We insert the tops there and tie at the base. The two ends remain free. Weave the stem into two ropes in a zigzag pattern.
2. The next fruit is also inserted and a knot is tied for fixation. This is how the braid of the required length is woven. It is important to braid and tighten the tops, but avoid breaking the stem.

Thus, the associated heads are kept in full view of the owners - it is easy to check its condition. Perfectly performs a decorative function indoors.