garlic harvest already
Jul10
Early to mid July and already the garlic has told us it is time to start harvesting… at least the early varieties.
Wednesday 2015 July 8th we harvested 5 types that were ready:
rodrigo
argentine4
chesnock red
shouldice
ttv5
Thursday 2015 July 9th we harvested 10 more types:
japanese sikura
phillipino
alberta hardy
us polish
persian star
us romanian
silver white
transylvanian
zemo
red rezan
The last of the garlic scapes came off last night as well.
A couple of the new varieties did not do so well, especially Persian Star
They were rinsed off with water and hunk upside down to dry in our drying racks inside a leanto.
This year we are increasing the air circulation by leaving one of the doors open.