Now that you have successfully grown and harvested your garlic, it is time to decide how to store your aromatic crop. The best way to store garlic depends on how you intend to use it. Read here to learn more.
Freshly harvested garlic drying outdoors Harvest garlic in summer when the leaves turn yellow. Gently lift out bulbs with a fork or trowel, taking care not to damage them. Leave the garlic to dry out for a few weeks by laying it out on a table or on racks, in full sun and out of ...
Garlic does best if it can experience a “dormancy” period of colder weather—at least 40˚F (4°C)—that lasts 4 to 8 weeks. When planted in the fall, garlic bulbs have time to develop healthy roots before temperatures drop and/or the ground freezes, but not enough time for the g...
As seen in the photo at the top of the page, bulbs harvested early have been trimmed and set to dry stem-down on the top shelf, with newly harvested plants behind them. I let my garlic cure for another week or so outdoors, and then trim off the remaining stem and dried roots. The...
Garlic–which is sometimes classified as an herb–is grown from cloves selected from medium to large bulbs, called heads, harvested the season before. You can plant cloves from garlic heads purchased at a grocery store or farm market as long as they have not been treated to prevent sprouting...
Nope. Green garlic (also called spring garlic or baby garlic) is any young garlic plant that’s harvested before maturity, usually in early to mid spring. The entire plant is edible, as green garlic has tender leaves and an undivided bulb with no paper wrapper. Why you should cut the sca...
We’ve found garlic to be pretty expensive at the grocery store these days. If you grow it yourself, you can store it for months! While garlic is generally harvested in summer, you actually plant it in fall, though seed garlic often sells out by late summer. So as we’re pulling our...
You carefullyplanted your garlic last fall. You cared for it all spring: watching its water, fertilizing a few times, weeding the patch well. Sometime around July you harvested a bundle of gorgeous bulbs and dutifully hung or laid them somewhere to cure before long term storage…Wait, you ...
However, you can eat garlic as soon as it’s pulled. Just clean, peel, and enjoy – no need to wait to complete the curing process! Freshly harvested garlic typically has a milder flavor than cured bulbs. You can even pull up whole plants in spring, preparing and eating the undeveloped...
As well as being easy to grow, garlic is easy to store after you’ve harvested it, and it’s so versatile to use in cooking that growing it in your garden is a simple decision, even if you're a beginning gardener. Subscribe to The Acorn, Oak Hill Homestead's weekly-ish newsletter ...