Got them out of the ground to make room for the peppers to go in. Looking forward to making a bunch of toum, garlic fermented honey, and whatever else we can think of to try and use them all this year.
Those look great! How did you decide it was time to harvest them? This is my first year growing garlic.
It’s when the first couple sets of leaves (from the bottom) start to die and turn brown. Also motivated by wanting to get other stuff in the ground.
Not that I’m an expert by any means! For gardening I’m mostly following what my wife tells me.
Amazing harvest! This is my first year with a garden and I don’t have any garlic, but really looking forward to planting some next year? How do you prepare them for long term storage and how long do you expect them to last?
We’ll let them sit and dry to “cure” for a week, at which point they stay good for quite a while in a cool, dry place. I think last time we grew garlic we got a good six or eight months out of them in the basement? We braided them into bundles and hung them up for storage.
Also if you want garlic next year, make sure you plant the bulbs this year before the ground freezes in late fall or so. Garlic is an over-winter situation.
Thank you!
The honey is a great idea! I do an olive oil one and then eat the rest in homemade garlic mayo with eggbreads. I never plant enough… hoping maybe maybe maybe I’ve done enough this year haha
I’m guessing this is hardneck garlic? I’ve got a bit of softneck that I put in around late Feb and I’m eagerly awaiting pulling it!
We did a mix, although the hardneck did a lot better than the softneck this year. There’s a bit more softneck still in the ground that we’re waiting on.
I personally prefer the hardneck only because it gives me tasty tasty scapes to grill.
Fuck yeah, I love garlic so much
Nice haul. I’ve never heard of garlic fermented honey, which sounds amazing.
It’s fantastic, as simple as just chucking some garlic into a jar with honey. Wait long enough and you get a really nice almost balsamic-y garlicy liquid to drizzle on stuff (I love it on pizza). I’ve also done it with some chopped up habanero included to make it spicy.
Insert usual caveats about being careful with fermenting food at home and doing your own research, and there being a small risk of botulism.
beautiful!!! there are always good soups and breads and curries that use a ton of garlic.
check this link for more inspiration: https://www.bikesandbutter.com/amp/the-great-garlic-challenge-10-things-to-make-with-the-costco-3-lb-bag-of-garlic
It’s been a terrible year for allium rust in my corner of the world - not looking like a great harvest this year for us, so living vicariously through your great looking garlic!
Planting garlic seems like a worthwhile thing to do! Your harvest looks amazing. I hope to find the time and place someday to plant some bulbs
