Full-circle garlic
96 heads of garlic
went from ground to curing rack Monday in celebration of the summer
solstice.
We still have about15
heads leftover from last year, but Artemesia won't mind at all adding
the pungent cloves to her diet for the next few weeks until they're all
gone.
By then, the new heads
will be dried and ready to pack away for the next year of seasoning and
planting.
Full circle gardening at
its best!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I am still struggling with getting usable garlic out of my garden. How is your water regime? I harvest heads just like yours, but most of them rot while drying. I harvested mine when the leaves were a bit more yellow than yours. Plus, the tons of rain in the south this year did not help any.
Mind sharing some tips on how to get past the harvest/drying stage?
Been trying for 4 years to grow and consume all my spaguetti sauce ingredients, but garlic stays an elusive fellow.