Garden

Garlic Harvest

Oooh garlic! I planted a bunch of garlic at the end of October. You can check out my post about it here. On July 11 I harvested it all.

I gently nudged each bulb out of the dirt with a little shovel so as not to break off the stalk.

Oh what a beautiful head of garlic!

Once they were all out of the ground, I brush off as much dirt as I could and then spread them out on a pallet in a location out of the weather but with plenty of air circulation.

They stay in that location for a couple of weeks until the dirt and the outer skins of the garlic head are dry.

Once dry, I sometimes will braid them up and hang them to finish curing. This time I just cut off the stalks and put them in a cool place in a basket for use.

Any bulbs that were tiny or nicked so as to not store well, I put those in a separate bowl to use first.

I love homegrown garlic. So easy. So delicious. So prolific.

Have you tried growing garlic? How did it go?

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