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CameronS

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • North East Fife
Garlic
« on: June 14, 2010, 08:38:53 pm »
When do you harvest garlic, what are ther signs it is ready??

valr

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Brightons nr Falkirk
Re: Garlic
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2010, 10:18:39 pm »

Frieslandfilly

  • Joined Apr 2009
Re: Garlic
« Reply #2 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

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
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Re: Garlic
« Reply #3 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)
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loopy

  • Joined Mar 2009
Re: Garlic
« Reply #4 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.

Greenerlife

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Leafy Surrey
Re: Garlic
« Reply #5 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.

romeo

  • Joined Jun 2010
Re: Garlic
« Reply #6 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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