Having reaped an excellent crop of garlic, not all manage to keep it till spring. Even if this spicy vegetable is stored in very dry and warm place, in April-May it begins to sprout. In such look it can't be used for preparation of dishes. Garlic, useful and necessary for health, wants to be kept as long as possible.
There are two interesting and unusual ways of processing and application of garlic already in other look.
The first way of preservation of garlic: dry it. For this purpose it is necessary to cut each clove on slices. Troublesome business, but it is worth it. Further - to dry up. In the electric dryer, on the warm oven on baking sheets, at the battery. Depends on your opportunities and conditions of accommodation.
It is possible to process in powder the dried-up garlic in different ways too, it is the simplest - the coffee grinder. It is necessary to store it in glasswares with a cover. Use as usual garlic.
The second way: put garlic heads to the earth for receiving greens. That the garlic bed didn't take a lot of place, it is possible to take polyethylene capacity on 5 liters. Cut out in it openings by the size of your heads of garlic. Openings need to be closed temporarily an adhesive tape. Fill to bank with the earth.
Opening openings on one, you put garlic heads there. You put on light and you don't forget to water. Enjoy fresh garlic greens in the winter - it will be pleasant result of your work.
In the same way it is possible to arrive with the sprouting onions.