What does garlic look like

I bought my first garlic sets off a mennonite organic farmer a few years ago from my immediate area , and all i can say is WOW great genetics and quality and the taste is second to none , Maybe you should try the same. Hi thanks for the info… totally new at this and now my garlic plant is curling up with several strands in the center, is this what you call looping or scapes?

Is a flower going to grow there next? Planted it in fall in So. Zone 9 or 10? Hearing different advice on this? Also I was plucking some of the long green thin leaves and eating them raw and now some of those leave ends are now forming a kind of dry blunt end to them? Please anybody Help?

Thank you, this has been very helpful. It is my first year growing garlic and the pictures sure did help. I want to grow some ginger and garlic in containers on my deck. Will garlic to well in containers? I found these instructions, and especially the close-up photos, the most helpful and clear directions ever. So, should I just leave it in the ground for next year, take it up and replant in October, or what? You should harvest all of your garlic now. I follow these guidelines for all of my garlic harvests and they have always been successful.

If you find it too small, you should leave it underground longer. I planted about 10 garlic sections roughly two months ago in april. I planted them in a container, about a foot long and half foot wide.

This was just planning on being a trial run. Only one ever grew a sprout, which grew about 2 inches. It looked nice and was growing well and then suddenly one day it looked like someone had pinched it at soil level almost totally off an within two days it was completely shriveled up and dead. Does this mean the one particular garlic plant is completely lost? Is my whole bunch lost? The garlic that died is completely lost. Hard to say what might have caused your crop to fail, as it depends on many factors: the quality of the seed garlic, the moisture of the soil, even the planting depth of the cloves.

Sometimes, store-bought garlic will be treated with a chemical that inhibits sprouting. I have an extreme slug population and They will chomp on them fast in the spring. When you harvest anything may depend on which climate zone you two live in. Things get ripe at different times in different places. Are you in the same climate zone? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Written by Linda Ly. Well, maybe. Related: Know When to Grow: A Planting Calendar for Your Garden Garlic is also one of those things where timing is everything, and the harvest period can span from May to August, depending on the date of planting, the weather conditions, and the type of garlic grown.

How do you know when garlic is ready to harvest? When should you stop watering your garlic? How to harvest garlic Should you wash garlic after harvesting? How to use and store garlic When do different garlic varieties mature? What if I pull my garlic too early? What if I pull my garlic too late? Should I let my garlic flower? Can I use garlic right out of the ground? When do I harvest spring garlic?

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Linda from Garden Betty July 30, at am. William Black June 24, at pm. Thanks, Bill Reply. Linda from Garden Betty June 30, at am. Kishan Shah March 14, at am. Linda from Garden Betty March 16, at am. Kishan Shah March 16, at am. Linda from Garden Betty March 21, at pm. Garlic is very forgiving. Leave it alone. Francine Torrisi June 22, at pm. Wanita Neucks Gowen June 14, at am. Tara Begley June 14, at pm. O Reply. Tara Begley June 14, at am. Wanita Neucks Gowen June 14, at pm.

Thanks Tara, I can hardly wait to harvest it!!! I live in SW Michigan as well, and my garlic is almost ready! Linda from Garden Betty June 17, at am. Brad Cloutier July 8, at pm. Thanks for the article and good info Reply. Wanita Neucks Gowen July 9, at pm. Valerie 'Shyla' Roberts November 1, at pm. Linda Ly of Garden Betty November 2, at am. Polly Oberolser June 29, at pm. Linda Ly of Garden Betty October 15, at am. Ainniz June 25, at am. Bonnie Hitt July 8, at pm.

Teresa J May 12, at pm. William Bill Troughton June 21, at pm. I save all my mesh bags—-from oranges etc—I planted in oct at 2 week intervals and just cut the scapes in june—-in surrey BC Reply. NC June 6, at pm. Linda Ly of Garden Betty October 17, at pm. Dulcie Beak May 28, at am.

Interesting post, thank you. Linda Ly of Garden Betty April 26, at pm. I have some in my raised bed I planted last fall. I figured I would try it a second time. The first time I tried soft neck. When I dug it up in late June the next year, I only had one clove!!!! I figured I messed that up too, so did not try again for several years until last fall.

I ordered from Territorial Seed and got the hardneck. Please clarify this for me, because this is the first time I have heard of this and may be why I gave up so quick the first time. In order to get a nice bulb of garlic, I leave the garlic in the ground for 3 years, right?

Hi everyone, so this is how I do it. Plant it in the fall and harvest mid spring, early summer. I live in zone 7 , Never failed.. What happens if you plant them in the spring and just let them grow through to next spring? Since you say the garlic comes back every year, is there any downside to planting them now if you have the space and just want to get them started now? I am very happy that you have given us the garlic info. Thank you!!! I would really like some info on growing rhubarb.

I have small, small plants and I cannot get them to take a growing spurt so, if you would pass on your expertise I would appreciate it. It loves compost. I used mulched leaves last year and the plants are huge right now. Some stocks are as large as my forearm. So much ends up back in the compost. Try mounding compost now. Good Luck. My mother has had several rhubarb plants in a row for the past 50 years and never divided them nor has she composted them or fertilized them.

She cuts a few stalks for pies each year, but leaves them alone otherwise. However, the soil was once farmland. There are many articles on how this increases the trace minerals in the soil, makes the vegetables grow much larger and longer production.

Lolve your stuff…read it all. I live in Waco and have been growing garlic for over 20 years. Just plant them in late fall. Usually in October. They both do fine because we will get some good winter rains and they will be ready to harvest in May. I am pulling mine now. The garlic is a bulb that grows in the ground. Hardneck varieties have little round bulbils at the top that can be eaten.

They are mild in flavor, but very aromatic. You know Amber, growing garlic seems as easy as reading a book. Thank you for making it simple. You want to buy seed garlic from a local farmer who grows garlic in your area. Also the garlic from a store maybe softneck garlic which is a hole diffrent animal then a hardneck. What should I do with them so that my garlic survives the winter? Hi Janelle, do you mean the garlic is sprouting in the garden?

I put a layer of straw over my garlic bed as a winter mulch. Great article! Planted garlic for first time in fall. Interested in seeing how it does. Have extra space. Every now and then, will have back to back days in the mid 40s. Is it too late to plant garlic now, in mid Jan? Thanks, Keith. There are tips on planting garlic in the spring! Hi, Thanks for the info ,my quastion is I have planted garlic last Septermber ,its servive the whole winter and still healthy but i dont know when to harvest.

Theres no scapes on the plant grow yet. Hi Naznain, My guess is that your scapes have started to come up since you asked the question. If not, you could be growing soft neck garlic.

The best time to plant garlic in Ontario is in the fall. Any advice for garlic problems? I just removed the scapes, but my leaves are fairly yellow, some streaky, but not yet brown. The bulbs are small but seem firm when I spot check. Another variety right next to it is still green.

Any suggestions on what may be wrong, when to harvest? There could also be some deficiency in the soil. I live in NW Montana. I planted some store bought garlic this spring since it started sending off green shoots. I would like to re-plant them in the fall. What do I need to do to prepare them for a re-planting? Question: how often and how much should a raised bed of garlic be watered? But I would water about every three to five days if there has been no rain.

Why is it necessary to wait for the scapes to curl? Would it be better to just snip them off and use them of course as soon as you identify them so the plant puts the energy back into the bulb? Thanks so much! Hi Darlene, One curl should be fine! Tara, Thank you for the helpful site that I will use for my next planting season. This year I did not cut the scapes and all the leaves are brown at this time?

An i still harvest the garlic, cure the bulbs and still use the garlic? Hi Janine, Sounds like it might be ready. I would dig one up and see and if it looks ready, you can dig the others up, cure, and store!

Great information! Over many years, I just harvest the little cloves from the flower and toss in my wild area and just let them grow for numerous years as I have more than I can possible use. Hi Tara,thank you for this post! I grew music garlic the scapes were great but lost half the bulbs after curing to rot. I hung them in my shop but I think lack of air flow cause them to rot.

Above, those are a few plants just as they came from the ground one year. Early bouts of sustained spring heat can push the garlic a little ahead of schedule as with so many other plants , and have my harvest curing extra-early, a process that takes three to eight weeks, before the tops will be cut off, the roots trimmed, and the cured bulbs stored.

Not so with garlic, which should be moved out of direct sunlight immediately once unearthed. Move it to a garage or porch or shed where the air circulation is good.

Garlic stores best when cured with its leaves on. Other factors that affect the timing of garlic harvest besides the weather, is what kind of garlic you planted.

Softneck garlic Allium sativum , the most common type of supermarket familiarity, has a row of largish outer cloves and a row or two of inner small ones. It would keep better than what I grow, but I like the bigger though fewer-per-head cloves of the hardneck kind…. Nor does comparatively puny softneck make as nice a roasted head of garlic as the bigger-cloved kind. Hardneck kinds also send up a scape—really a woody flower-stalk-to-be—around June, signaling a month or so remaining before bulb maturity.

I cut the scapes off when they start to develop above , and use them in stir-fries, oiled and grilled, or pureed with cheese as a pesto on pasta. I make it all sound like a lot to ponder, but garlic is easy to grow. It took me a mere 15 minutes to harvest my crop of about 75 heads today, and not much work before that, frankly, either. More on storing and freezing for the long haul.

The full how-to on growing is here. Should one cut off the scapes a few weeks before harvest…. Thanks for info.. Yes, I havrest and eat the scapes when they form. I had an interesting experience where I had some scapes in my kitchen I never got around to eating. Bulbils that you mentioned above maybe? They were like miniature cloves and delicious on pasta. Is my first year growing so thank you on the harvesting advice! These full grown bulbils harvested in late July can be planted on mid October, exactly the same as planting clove.

It take much less space, in other words, much sense and can save cloves to use as seeds.