Harvesting garlic

[cutterboy]

Today was harvest day for the garlic. Planted October 31 it came up very early this spring and grew well through the spring and summer till today. This is about 10 days earlier than normal for harvest but the plants tell us when it's time to harvest and today they told me. Now, they tell us you can't grow soft neck this far north but they don't know what they are talking about. I grow both hard neck and soft neck and do well with both. In the picture above the first row is soft neck and the back row is hard neck.

I pulled them up and washed them off with the hose and laid them out on the lawn to dry.


After a while my wife cut the roots off and tied them into bundles of six.


Then I took the bundles and tied them up in the drying barn. Garlic, lumber, kindling and mint gets dried in that barn.



My wife will use a fair amount in her cooking and we will give a lot of it away to my sons (who are both great cooks) and my wife's brother. Me, I will sit and enjoy my wife's home made pasta with her home made sauce with a glass of good Italian wine.


  I love the home made food.....Cutter