Garlic storage Evaluations March 21/2020

had 14 varieties of garlic stored in the unheated garage in paper bags

Length of storage- evaluations can be based on different criteria

Based on sprouting length
worst in terms of sprouting
Thai, Japanese, Red Russian, German Red, Spanish Roja, MexicanPurple, Italian (surprised at this one)
all of these also the bulbs starting to shrink/shrivel as nutrients used to produce shoots

all the other varieties- do not show any signs of sprouting

Thai-lots of sprouts and long

Japanese- starting to sprout

Rose de Latrec so far not sprouting

Purple Glazer- no sprouts so far

German Red- crop was small- used biggest ones to plant- a bit of sprouting but not on all

Red Russian- starting to sprout on half the bulbs

Bogatyr- no sprouts so far

Spanish Roja- starting to sprout on all bulbs

Mexican Purple - about half of bulbs starting to sprout

German Hardneck- no sprouts

Bogatyr- no sprouts

 Fitzki- some bulbs that were inside all winter- not different from those in the cold

Italian- starting to sprout- was surprised