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Harvesting and Drying Garlic

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.

Harvested Garlic Drying

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

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

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Growing Garlic

I have never grown garlic before. Last Fall I was given some garlic bulbs for planting. They say they winter over well so I thought I’d give garlic a try.
Garlic in the Spring Growing

Here is a helpful link with instructions for planting, growing and harvesting garlic.

I separated the cloves and planted them last Fall in a raised bed. I covered the cloves with some sawdust I had left them to grow. Late this winter after the snow melted, I checked on them. I was excited to see the green tops that had popped out of the dirt.

I’ve been watering them now that the weather has warmed up. The photo above is their progress so far this year. As you can see some of the leaves are starting to turn yellow so I think all is going well with my garlic. They say when about half of the leaves turn yellow or brown, stop watering. So I will watch closely and wait for them to mature before harvesting them later this summer.

I am looking forward to having my own home-grown garlic this year and it’s looking promising thus far.

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