#harvesting garlic

This week has been a week where we have been harvesting a lot of food from the garden. I haven’t been canning, freezing or dehydrating anything that I am harvesting right now. Some of it will keep without refrigeration and others we are eating as soon as we pick it from the garden. Why Not Can, Freeze or Dehydrate? My mother used to do a lot of canning and freezing, but often she didn’t cook…

Harvesting, Curing and Storing Garlic

It’s mid to late July here in southern Ontario and in our zone 5a garden this is when we start to think about pulling up that garlic we planted in the fall. Garlic is a staple in our family – we simply adore this aromatic wonder. I’m one of those people who doubles or triples the amounts called for in recipes. For example, a recipe with one clove… what!?!?! No good recipe only has ONE clove of…

Before we start with this article, I would like to ask you a simple question – how often do you eat garlic? Well, you should eat it every day, because it’s loaded with healthy nutrients and it can provide many health benefits.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdudyqmaM40)

Harvesting garlic, Tacuinum sanitatis, Fifteenth century.

Harvesting Garlic in the Home Garden

With garlic, it would seem the devil is in the details of when is the best time for harvesting garlic from the garden.

Garlic bulbs are hidden underground. So how do you tell when they’re ready? When is the right moment to insure a well-formed bulb head that will store through the winter?

1. When to harvest garlic

Pioneer Dad suggests waiting until the leaves go completely brown may give the…

Harvesting Garlic: That was Easy!

Garlic sits all winter growing slowly. Very trouble free

In September and October my nieces and…