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Harvest Garlic - when?

  • 20-05-2009 9:46pm
    #1
    Fishy1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭


    Hi there,
    I'm the proud owner of a small raised bed. I have lettuce, spinach, potatoes, leeks (tiny seedlings), cucumbers, onions & garlic. Sounds great when I read that list!

    Regarding the garlic, as it's my first time to grow it, when can I harvest it? I planted it before the heavy frosts in late January . . . . I read somewhere that garlic needs frost to get it started.

    When will it be ready to pick?:confused:

    Thanks in advance,
    Fishy1


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  • #2
    Minder
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    Allow the flower heads to develop but not to split open - once they have developed, cut them off - one per plant. The plant will start to die back after flowering and the necks of the garlic - the first 4 inches above the soil will start to dry and go straw like. At this point you can lift the bulbs and hang them out of the weather to dry.


  • #3
    Fishy1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭Fishy1


    Thanks for that Minder. No flower heads on the garlic yet. I presume that will happen later in the "summer".


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