{"id":11283,"date":"2026-08-30T08:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=11283"},"modified":"2026-08-30T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:19:07","slug":"garlic-harvest-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2026\/08\/garlic-harvest-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Garlic Harvest 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A better than average year for garlic. Very little winterkill if any at all. Leek moth damage was less than normal.<\/p>\n

Harvest was completed on 2026July24:
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Drying this year was again in the garage with fans blowing 24\/7 hanging from drying racks and some in a new method.. a 2’x8′ chicken wire rack.
\nDrying was complete by 2026aug10<\/p>\n

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sorted by weight per bulb\t<\/p>\n

Name\taverage weight(g)
\nnewfoundland (2019)\t73
\nRoja (2019 fa)\t72
\nmennonite\t68
\nFishlake Ted F40\t62
\nnorthern quebec\t60
\nAzores(2025)\t59
\nFishlake Ted F30\t54
\nArmenian(2015)\t51
\nrussian red\t48
\nnorthumberland\t46
\nRosewood(2015)\t46
\nitalian purple (2019)\t45
\nFishlake Ted F3\t42
\nwild garlic\t38
\ncr\u00e8me de la rasa 2019\t37
\nSicilian Gold(2016)\t35
\ninchelium\t35
\nyugo red (2018)\t35
\nspanish antihelion(2015)\t32
\nrailway creek (2019)\t31
\nHungarian(2015)\t31
\nFishlake Ted F21\/23\t27
\nsilverskin40\t27
\nspicy korean\t27
\nartichoke formidable\t26
\npurple glazer\t26
\nFishlake Ted F1\t25
\npolish jenn\t25
\nFishlake Ted F7\t23<\/p>\n

min\t23
\naverage\t42
\nmax\t73<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A better than average year for garlic. Very little winterkill if any at all. Leek moth damage was less than normal. Harvest was completed on 2026July24: Drying this year was again in the garage with fans blowing 24\/7 hanging from drying racks and some in a new method.. a 2’x8′ chicken wire rack. Drying was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garlic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11283"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11290,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions\/11290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}