Apologies for the late post, but the garlic crop got harvested today here at Struan Farm, amongst other things. While the garage is just a little pungent while it hangs to dry, at least I'm confident Dracula won't be visiting us any time soon!
Once it dries a bit I'll trim the ends and then leave them to dry fully spread out on newspaper before cutting the heads off for storage. I've pulled 38, three different varieties. While conventional wisdom is to plant garlic on the shortest day of the year in June and harvest on the longest in December, I learnt this year that it is actually ready for harvesting when the 7th leaf from the bottom starts to die.
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