I just harvest the garlic that I planted last fall. I stopped watering the garlic recently after about half the leaves dried out as shown in the photo. You want to harvest the garlic when the ground is dry and use a small garden shovel to loosen the dirt around the plant. I was surprised by how tough the plant was to pull out of the ground. I had to dig down and loosen the dirt all around the plant and still had to really tug to get it out.

Some of the garlic was nearly the size of a baseball.

After about 4 weeks of drying, I trimmed the tops and roots of the garlic. Here are a few of my final product.

As you can see, one of the garlic has the cloves showing. The skins on that one came apart when I was peeling off the outer layers and dirt. According to several sources, I need to use these cloves first as they won’t store well. The rest, I put in a paper bag for storage in my basement. It looks like I will have plenty of cloves to plant later this fall from my harvest this summer.