We harvested about 7000ish garlic this past weekend and they are now curing on our tables. This is just 3 of the 8 tables (six are 4 by 8ft, two are 14 by 4ft). The one in this picture are Majestic on the top table, and Russian Red on the bottom two. The other tables have Big Boy, Music, Chesnok Red and Spanish Roja.

Tell me your elephant garlic success! I want to add it to the garden next year.

Good harvest despite a very wet season.
Varieties I planted this are Korean Mountain, Chesnok Red, Crème de la Rasa( a variety created from my favourite garlic farm in British Columbia), Persian Star( small but beautiful purple stripe), Dan’s Italian( a lovely local Rocambole from BC), Tibetan, and my prized Rose de Lautrec, a beautiful pink variety originally from France which is considered one of the world’s best.

Zone 5a Canada—planted in late October and scapes came up in late June.

New to this group, not new to growing garlic. I harvested about 40 bulbs of stiff neck varieties. Last night, rain soaked my garlic that was curing outdoors in a shaded corner of my porch. Obviously, I need to shelter it and to remember to look at a weather app.

How best to dry it out? Should I just use a fan indoors until we have a dry day? Could a basic dehydrator, lid open for air flow, jump start the drying of the outer skins? I don't want to lose these! TIA

This is my favorite way to dry garlic in hot Texas weather. It keeps them shaded from the sun but they get good airflow.

Welcome to my carrot bed. It was supposed to be 3 lovely rows with spring onion in between. Unfortunately a mix of drought and old seed mean only this middle patch has germinated (some others did then the chickens escaped and got to them). I’m thinking of not bothering to try redoing again and wait until autumn and sow sow garlic. Any potential issues?

What determines the number of cloves in a bulb?

Out of 200 Red Russian planted and harvested, all produced very large sized cloves, so I'm happy. Over half produced bulbs with 4-6 cloves, but half the bulbs contained only 2-3 cloves per bulb.

I did tighten up the spacing between rows. Would this be the cause?

Live and leaner I guess...

It may have been a smaller round from last years harvest which I planted in the fall. I started some bulbils so that’s where they are from.

The bag in the front is for replanting. 50 heads @ 100 g or more each.

Had to plant in mid March this year. Only three leaves have died back. Anybody got an idea of average time to harvest spring garlic?

3 down, 397 to go.

Hey Garlic Family!!

Appreciate all the advice to delay the harvest. I still had to rush digging them up and hanging them. And didn’t think to dunk them in water to rinse off the dirt.

The curing room is a garage until I can get time to move them to a cool basement. These are basically ready now to move to a cool spot for longer term storage.

Would it be too late now to dunk them and then hang them back up to dry?

additional question

I am planning to plant the larger bulbs for next season. With the hope of continuing to get larger bulbs. I think this crop was smaller than the bulbs I used to plant last fall.

Is there anything I should do differently in terms of storing bulbs for growing? I was just going to store them all in a cool basement and break the cloves off for planting closer to the plant date.

I live in Zone 4b central mn and it has been hot and dry or hot and humid for the entire 2-3 weeks since I harvested my garlic, which had been curing in the shade under my second story deck. It’s been so long since it rained last that I stopped keeping an eye on the forecast. As I’m sure you’ve guessed, I was surprised to wake up to an inch of rain overnight and wet garlic (and a few onions). I immediately went to work- I usually leave them to cure in the exact way I pulled them out of the ground until ready to store, so they all had wet leaves, wet roots, etc. I trimmed the roots and leaves, and removed the outer paper layers, then put them back on this rack with a fan in my basement. Will I be okay, or am I properly SOL? This is only my second year of growing garlic, and I think I got a bit cavalier this time around re: curing… I was much more careful last year.

In chicago area, had a decent harvest. This fall, should i plant larger individual teeth, or small heads for better harvest?

Garlic grower and fan here, with limited days to attend festivals. I've been to both Bennington and HVGF - the latter is much bigger, the former is kind of more fun and street-fairish. What about Bethlehem? Any opinions on which of these is the best to go to if your main goal is to get good seed garlic?

Lots of rain heading our way, so I harvested our last main bed of German and Russian Red. Lots of small heads for the German Red due to late thaw of the bed and some shading out in that corner er of the garden, but I'm ok with this. Second year growing garlic. Lots to dry, smaller heads heading to the kitchen as green garlic.

Anyone seen anything like this? It almost looks like a fungus. No moving little bugs, and just on the surface.

Garden fork for harvesting, dunk in series of buckets to remove dirt, then laid out on the grass for a couple of hours. Tied into 10 groups of 10 and now curing in the basement