Garlic Harvest

Here is what is left from last year's garlic harvest.  Most of these cloves have started to sprout and now that I have new garlic to use, they have gone into the compost bucket.

The garlic was harvested several weeks ago and left to cure in the garage.

First task to prepare these for use was to cut off the stems.

Then to trim off the roots.

Rub well to loosen the first layer of paper covering.

These are nice sized garlic heads.

Cloves are huge.

And I have a lot.

Pile of roots and paper.

Finished basketful.

This one I peeled a bit more to show the cloves.

Into the pantry.

Now the decision I have to make is whether to order more from Fedco for fall planting or rely on my stores of heads?  If I use my own heads will I have enough to last till next summer?

Decisions!

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The garlic has been cured and yesterday I trimmed the roots and stems.  It's quite a nice harvest for this year.

Many of the bulbs fill my hand.

This one is strange.  It's a one clove bulb.

And then there was this one with little bulbs attached.

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Last fall I planted an entire 3 x 3 bed with hardneck garlic. Below its the bed on the right.



In the spring thin shoots visible.


They continued to grow through the spring.

They put out the scapes all of which I cut off, but didn't use them all.

When the lower leave died at the end of June I pulled them and laid them out to dry in the heat of the garage.

Here is my final harvest cleaned up. 14 large bulbs and 5 small ones. There were a few more that I used already or gave away.

Now I have to select one or two of these for next year's crop. I won't plant as much because it took up so much space which meant I had to start the zucchini later.

Garlic Harvest

I planted garlic cloves that came from the store last fall. Emily declared them done this week so we pulled them and let them dry. Here they are cleaned up and ready to use. Not very big, but usable.