We get a lot of questions about when is the appropriate time to harvest garlic from your garden.
In this video, Carrie goes over how to know when to harvest your garlic!
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Hi, everybody. It’s Carrie with seed to spoon. A common question I get is how to know when your garlic is ready to harvest. So I thought today as I went through and harvested some garlic that I would show them.
I do have to say I’ve already started harvesting some of this garlic and I can just smell it. It smells so incredible. I love the smell of garlic. I just, I love garlic and it’s amazing. So it’s completely worth the wait. So whenever we go and we plant garlic, we plant it in the fall and then we let it over winter.
And then now that it has hit the summer, it has started to die back. So you’ll know whenever it is ready to be harvested, the top of the plant will start to turn brown and it start to lay over on its side and looking dead. And that’s when you’ll notice that these garlic. Are ready to harvest. So whenever you notice these things happening, you can just come through and pull all of them out or pull one of them at a time.
And I just, as you want them inside, but usually what we do, we come through and we pull the entire bed of them and then we let them sit in a warm, dry location that is out of direct sunlight and let them cure. And then. Once we have that they can be stored for like 10 months. I mean, for a really long time, garlic is amazing.
Now. So that’s really all there is to harvesting garlic. You just go through and pull it up straight out of the soil. I usually try to wait until we have not gotten rain for at least a day or two, or I haven’t watered for the previous day or two, just so the soil kind of brushes off of the garlic bulb a lot easier.
It’s not a necessity, but it is something that I try to do to make it just a little bit easier on my. And that’s about all there is to it. If you guys have any questions at all, please feel free to leave them in the comment section. And I will get back with you. Thank you so much for watching everybody and we’ll see you all next time.
Bye.
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I planted my garlic last Oct. I harvested about mid June. None of my garlic had cloves. They were all just one big fruit like an onion. Any ideas? Some say I harvested too early. I put some back in the ground, I guess I will see what happens , if they sprout, Thanks early