Garlic Harvest

by | Jul 13, 2016 | CobraHead, Gardening

We harvested our 100 garlic plants yesterday.  The bulbs were almost all quite large and firm.  We didn’t wait for the stalks (on the soft necks) to fall over, the traditional sign that it’s time to harvest.  We were expecting some extended rains and we didn’t want to harvest wet bulbs, nor did we want the outer skin layers to start splitting.  The time was right. We planted two rows of hard necks and one row of soft necks.  I started out using the broad fork to...

The Great Garlic Harvest of 2011

by | Jul 15, 2011 | CobraHead, Gardening

We harvested garlic, yesterday.  The bed was kind of weedy this year and I did not do my usual inter-planting with salad greens.  However the garlic was just fine and at the peak time for harvesting.  Last year we left it in the ground a little too long and the bulbs did not store as well as usual.  This year we think we got it at exactly the right time. We used to grow soft neck garlic and it was quite easy to tell when it was ready to pick.  The leaves yellowed...

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