It grew beautifully until a couple of weeks ago when its tops started dying down. On June 9th, I bent all the tops down to let it all rest for a couple of weeks. On June 11th, I got nervous because I kept reading that our garlic shouldn’t be ready until July, so I dug one of the heads up to investigate…it was little, but happy and fully formed into an actual head of garlic!
Then, after ceasing to water them in order to let them rest for about 2 weeks, on June 22nd, we dug them all up and set them on the wire racks in our pantry to cure for a couple of weeks.
In total, we harvested 1 whole pound of garlic (16 heads)!!!
Now, what will we do with all this garlic? Store some, make some fresh garlic powder and keep some to plant again in the fall!
Looks like great harvest! I am excited to try growing garlic this fall.