W. B. Yeats's poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1888) contains the couplet Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, / And live alone in the bee loud glade.
Updated February 28, 2017. Store fresh mushrooms the right way, and they'll last up to a week. Here's how: Place whole, unwashed mushrooms in a brown paper bag, and fold the top of the bag over. Then, stick the bag in the main compartment of your refrigerator. The bag absorbs excess moisture from the mushrooms, so they don't get soggy or moldy.
Maybe itâs been in a nice little ceramic garlic vessel for the last year. Maybe thereâs a few bulbs that have been hanging out on the top of your fridge for the past four months. Maybe thereâs a renegade peeled garlic clove under your kitchen table from last nightâs dinner prep. All very plausible. But are they still good? We can give you general guidelines for how long garlic will last. If you keep a whole head of garlic unpeeled it will last close to six months. (That is, if you store it properly. More on that later.) A single, unpeeled clove will last about three weeks. But once you take the skin off, garlic starts to degrade more quickly.