Cindy Grows Garlic, 2006

We like garlic so this year, since we garden, I decided to try my hand at growing some. Here at least, you plant it in the late fall, let it winter-over, then wait for it to be ready to harvest in July. I wrote about cutting the scapes off the softneck variety on my June Page. I harvested those a couple of weeks ago, pulling and cleaning them, then braiding the greens and hanging them up to dry for a few weeks. Our shed gets too hot, so I decided to hang them in the house. Yesterday the hardneck garlic were ready to harvest, so I cleaned them and bundled them with rubber bands because their greens remained stiff and hard- not braidable. Behold, more of the story:

Posing at my garlic bed..

The last of the harvested hardneck garlic.

Cleaned and ready to bundle.

interesting choice of a hanging spot...

Now my harvested garlic rest and dry next to the refrigerator.



When the skins are paper-dry the stems and roots will be trimmed and they will patiently wait in a basket for us to use them.

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