Pacific Northwest Gardening: Summer harvest, 1 by mauryhillfarm

mauryhillfarm wrote:
Thanks beebonnet. That particular variety is really huge, and is also very flavorful. It was originally given to me by a friend, about 10 years ago.

Summer, it doesn't look like it in the photo, but the bottom 3 leaves had dried down. I pulled them off when cleaning up the garlic before taking it in the house. The main thing is to harvest when the bulbs are mature, which of course is hard to tell when they are underground, so people often go by the leaves. I've heard to wait until there are only 6 green leaves left on the top, but sometimes that doesn't happen even when the bulbs are ready because of an exceedingly wet spring. If I wait too long, the bulbs break apart and don't store well. What I usually do is pull up a test garlic to see if it is time to harvest yet. Most kinds of garlic I have grown matures sometime in the first 2 weeks of July.

The picture below is of my Armenian garlic, which I harvested earlier.

This message was edited Jul 17, 2013 5:23 PM