A few weeks ago I noticed that the garlic in my garden was ready to harvest. This is the biggest garlic harvest I have every had! Garlic takes awhile to grow and usually it is planted in the fall. In June I harvested the garlic scapes. Once the green stems start to dry up, it’s time dig up the garlic bulbs. Usually garlic is harvested in July and August.
I forgot to take a picture of the garlic when it was first dug up. Basically you want to harvest the whole bulb with leaves attached. It had rained a lot before I harvested my garlic. Ideally you want to dry the bulbs out a bit before harvesting. Since the ground was wet, a lot of dirt stuck to my garlic bulbs. To dry the garlic just lay the bulbs on newspaper in a cool, dry place. You don’t want them in direct sunlight. I places the bulbs on a table on my covered porch for three weeks or so.
Once the garlic is dry, you can take off the excess dirt. It easily rubbed off my garlic bulbs. Cut the roots and the dried leaf stems off. As you can see in the above picture some of the bulbs have the cloves showing. This happens when the garlic is harvested too late! These garlic cloves will not keep for long so I will use them first!
Once the garlic is dry and clean, store the garlic in a dark and cool place.
For more on gardening, check out my previous gardening posts.
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