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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: CameronS on June 14, 2010, 08:38:53 pm

Title: Garlic
Post by: CameronS on June 14, 2010, 08:38:53 pm

When do you harvest garlic, what are ther signs it is ready??

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: valr on June 14, 2010, 10:18:39 pm

have a look here

http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/articles/vegetables/garlic/

 :farmer:

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: Frieslandfilly on June 14, 2010, 11:04:28 pm

You can also harvest garlic before it reaches its full maturity, if you can see the bulbs and they look big enough to use then use them fresh as 'wet' garlic, delicious

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: plumseverywhere on June 15, 2010, 01:31:32 pm

does anyone know what it means when it flowers? is it ready or have I left it too late?  the shoots havn't yellowed so I've left it in (overwintered)

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: loopy on June 15, 2010, 02:59:00 pm

i don't let my garlic flower, i cut the stem before it has chance to flower, so it puts its energy into swelling the bulb rather than growing a flower.  Read it somewhere a few years ago when i first grew it.

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: Greenerlife on June 15, 2010, 03:00:31 pm

I was thinking that just this morning as I looked at my yellowing garlic.  Thanks for the link.

Title: Re: Garlic
Post by: romeo on June 21, 2010, 06:46:33 am

Hello,

Deciding when to harvest your garlic crop is not an exact science. In the USA and much of Northern Europe garlic is usually harvested in the summer months. The harvesting begins in July and picking can continue all the way through August.
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