Harvesting Garlic

When the bottom 3 to 4 leaves on the garlic turn brown it's time to harvest. This year's crop was very nice and as an added bonus I had sizable crop of "volunteer" garlic that grew from last year's discarded seed head.

The garlic on the right was planted in the garden and the garlic on the left started as discarded seed heads in an unused section of the garden.



Some nice sized garlic bulbs.



After the garlic is dug it needs to be dried for long-term storage. Once dried the garlic will keep for 6 to 8 months. I'm drying this year's crop in the upper level of the barn where it's warm and dry. Each bundle has only 10 plants to allow for good air flow. This year's crop was about 100 plants.