Once the bulbs are dug, lay the plants in a single layer somewhere that is dry, airy, and out of direct sunshine. The green leaves should dry up and turn brown on their own. When the bulbs are cured, and no green is left showing on the upper leaves, the garlic will be ready for cleaning and storage. We prefer using a toothbrush to loosen and scrub away any soil still stuck to the bulbs, and trim the roots with scissors.
This is the time to braid soft-neck garlic. For hard-neck garlic, trim the stem to within about three inches from the bulb. It will not continue to grow without its leaves. Can you leave a bulbs in the ground each year to keep dividing, and raise them as a perennial crop like multiplying onions? I have had garlic in same place for 36 yrs.
I live in the south. I have no idea what the name of the garlic is. This garlic comes up around January and then it will have large seeded blooms. I have an extensive garlic crop growing, and, I am waiting, but, I have found in my climate, you just keep planting it, and you will get a crop throughout the year.
I do use the leaves often in cooking. They are sweet, sharp and have the good garlic flavor, so, to me, the plant can be utilized before harvest. And, to germinate the cloves is easy. Stagger the planting, and over time you can have an abundance of garlic.
I live in California zone 9. In your experience would my climate be suitable for year round garlic planting and harvesting? What I am doing is always germinating cloves to plant at any time of the year. You have to wait though as the winter months have less sunshine and the angle of the sun in relationship to the Earth is such that any obstruction, tree, fence, etc, limits the available direct sunlight. So, the time to harvest does vary. Now, if you want to get your garlic ahead of things and know if you have a viable plant, do this.
Get the very thin kebab skewers and take single cloves, with the skin on, and rack them up. You will also see definite roots. I did transplant some of the garlic from a big pot to a garden soil. That was a death blow! I harvested some, but, I am disappointed.
However, I just keep germinating the cloves. And, the key is keeping them in the same soil. So, the really healthy ones failed…. But, I have to admit…. There was a large cat that decided to choose this area for napping! Oh well……. Garlic leaves are one of my favorite things to cook with! What amazes me most is the number of crops you get off of it. Early in the year the leaves start growing, my grandaughter and I chop them off all the time and munch them raw.
Pick the best ones for next years planting and start all over again. I love your top-to-tail use of garlic. Nevertheless I generally get a good harvest. So we eat the over- and under-ripe garlic first, and the rest can keep in a cool place until around the time of the next harvest … although a few cloves will have sprouted or gone mouldy by then. We live on a small property. We have fruit trees, some espaliered, including apples, plums, peaches, citrus and feijoas.
We have a couple of grape vines and some blueberry bushes. I love to grow tomatoes in the season. It is winter here and we are picking lettuce, rocket, kale, swiss chard, parsley, mint and the leaves from some young broad beans. Our parsnips look like they are just about ready, and there are a few carrots left.
I planted the garlic about six weeks before the shortest day, and it is looking very good. I am fortunate to be able to harvest wild meat from the neighborhood. Where do you live now Ross? Oh, I spent plenty of time on the South Island. I live in Campbell, California. So, we get some mild weather. I knew a guy who had a ranch outside of Tauranga. But, he was a sheep and cattle guy. I also was a chef, or cook, for a Bed and Breakfest in Methven,,,, I have a whole bunch of things growing that are coming to fruition, and some that have bolted.
But, the plants focus more on the flower and less on the leaf. But, you get the seeds. I bought a house that has garlic planted they are tall and have green balls with a leaf over them. DO I dig up the inground garlic or eat the tops only?
If I dig up the bulbs will they grow next year or do I have to replant? Hardneck garlic will often send up flower stalks that are tall and stiff. You can cut off the flowers and eat them, if you wish. After harvesting, the garlic needs to be replanted. Do I have to replant the ones I dig up?
The whole bulb or just one piece of it? What position and when do I plant if for next year? This post was perfect for information content. Now, how do I deal with the moles that compromise the root system of some of my garlic??!!! Sticky traps around your beds. So wht i do is set a lettuce with 4 sticky traps and eventually you will catch one. To keep em away entirely , use grounded Cayenne pepper spice , they hate this stuff and will keep away.
I have had them in the garden for 3 years now and they seem to be no where ready yet, just dug one out and its like a anorexic spring onion. Just harvested garlic that was left in the ground too long. Would I be able to freeze these cloves in oil? Do I dry them first, or process them right away? Thanks, Jane. You can freeze them right away.
Please advise. Also, FYI, I have two types of garlic that grows along a portion of my yard. The first produces a large bulb. I never plant this particular garlic, yet it appears every year for the last 25 years. Some years will produce more than others, though it has not failed me during the mentioned time frame.
A second includes an Italian garlic that produces a smaller bulb that is red in color. This garlic is much more zestier, and is a product of seeds that I tossed along the area six or seven years ago. Thank you for your time and consideration. Some types of garlic form bulbils, which look like tiny cloves of garlic, and reseed in that way. Is this true? If you plant cloves of hardneck garlic in fall, scapes will appear in spring and you can harvest the bulbs in summer.
On most garlic , when the scape loop starts forming , you must top it off , otherwise , the plants energy is focused on flowering instead of producing nice sized bulbs.
Did you plant garlic that was bought at a store , like a chinese variety? If so , maybe the genetics are not accustomed to our weather and climate. I bought my first garlic sets off a mennonite organic farmer a few years ago from my immediate area , and all i can say is WOW great genetics and quality and the taste is second to none , Maybe you should try the same.
Hi thanks for the info… totally new at this and now my garlic plant is curling up with several strands in the center, is this what you call looping or scapes? Bulbils that you mentioned above maybe? They were like miniature cloves and delicious on pasta. Is my first year growing so thank you on the harvesting advice! These full grown bulbils harvested in late July can be planted on mid October, exactly the same as planting clove.
It take much less space, in other words, much sense and can save cloves to use as seeds. By next July dig these out the size of a quarter, rap in the paper and replant in October, again all the same time frame, this will grow as a full bulb in the July second year.
I live in western Minnesota have both clove and bulbils growing. Hi, Carol. I usually cut when it has made a circle and a little bit, but before the scape gets tough. My garlics are a hardneck variety, left in the garden overwinter to seed my sister gave me some shoots last spring and they fully died back before I could harvest them. While they were the first thing to grow in the spring, they did not produce any scapes except one whose stalk did not fully emerge before the flower opened from the center of the plant.
What am I doing wrong? This was my first year successfully growing garlic and I missed the right harvesting time. Is there anything I can do to save them or have I ruined my harvest? Hi, Megan. Like this. Plus around now I make all my tomato sauce and various soups with fresh produce to freeze for offseason use…and some of my garlic crop goes into those.
Many thanks. Totally new to growing anything but decided last October to plant cloves from this really great local garlic I bought. For the future in Zone 6 should I have waited until late July, early August? Im in zone 4b and have been growing hardneck garlics for several years.
Once they turn brown, they wither so check at ground level. We are newbies planting garlic and harvested last night after cutting off the scapes a few days ago. The bulbs are really small—and I now see that we harvested too early. A few years ago, when I was writing an article for another publication, I interviewed a gentleman from PEI by the name of Al Picketts who has a company called Eureka Garlic. But I did ask him when is garlic ready to harvest because timing is everything.
Al explained that he uses a calendar to determine when to pull his own crops—for example, he always harvests Turban garlic on July But because we all live in different gardening zones and various climates, in general, he says to look for two dead, dry leaves at the base of the plant, with a third leaf that is starting to die. The reason for harvesting at the right time is because the bulb is wrapped with leaves.
When a leaf dies, the soil bacteria eat it. This leaf will disappear not only above ground but also below. For Turban, Artichoke, and Silverskin varieties, you might want to use a pitch fork or spade—being careful not to touch the bulb. I usually pull my hardneck varieties, like Rocambole and Porcelain, because the talks are usually super-thick and sturdy.
Sometimes the soil and bulbs need a little coaxing. By the time the garlic is ready to be pulled, it can sometimes have become more hard-packed. Bruising affects the storage life. I usually take my jumbo trowel or a bigger spade and well away from the bulb, I gently try to lift the soil beneath it. Usually this nudges the bulb up a bit, loosening the soil enough for me to pull the stalk.
I gently remove excess dirt, again being careful not to bruise the bulb. There is a rapid growth stage just before garlic is ready to harvest, so a few days could make a significant difference. But then sometimes a bulb is just going to be runty no matter what. I find the layer of straw mulch helps to deter them.
Curing garlic basically means drying it out. You want lots of air flow and a cool place to cure it. Drying racks are great to have because you can use them for other veggies and herbs, too. I made my own drying rack out of screen stapled to a scrap wood frame. I place it on a stack of bricks or buckets in my garage so air flows underneath.
You can braid the stalks to store, as well. I just harvested my scapes. They were 1 or 2 curls on them. Should I have waited till they were curled 3 to 4 times around? Just wondering from the pictures I saw in this post.
The garlic I grew last year and harvested in July is still in storage in my pantry and in perfect shape. Hi Ernie, It does seem possible. This video from Cali Kim might be useful. She talks about growing garlic in warm climates. Hi Trar. Can you Grow garlic in a pot in the house?
I live in an apartment with no balcony but I am interested in growing garlic. This is my first year without a garden. I do have some oregano and thyme from my garden that I brought with me, which is still growing from last summer. I am going to try several other herbs this year in the house and I would like to try garlic. Should hardneck chesnok be harvested before the scapes grow, even if bottom leaves are turning yellow?
It looks like I have multiple dead leaves at base on garlic that has not scaped; do they always scape? Hi Bardy, it seems as though you probably have a softneck variety. They are harvested the same as a hardback, but do not produce scapes.
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