Garlic story and an early harvest for long storage

See the signs of readiness, and it's not to do with leaves still green. Then you can peel it clean, dry it under a roof, and hang to store in the house.

This is softneck garlic, ready up to two weeks before hardneck garlic. See my Growing Guide for more details https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod...

Garlic in the polytunnel matures up to three weeks earlier than outside. So you still have time to be ready, if watching before solstice.

Filmed 3rd June by Nicola Smith at Homeacres UK, maritime temperate climate zone 8.

00:00 Introduction
00:38 Knowing when garlic is ready - I demonstrate harvesting in the polytunnel
02:44 Garlic planted outside - more rust
03:08 Having plants ready to go in after garlic harvests, or interplanting between
03:37 Garlic just harvested and from previous year, using a wire method to hang/store
04:31 Cutting off the roots and outer leaves of recently harvested bulbs
04:55 Size difference between recently harvested and year-old garlic
05:29 A less mature bulb
05:42 More advice on when to harvest, colour of leaves and stem
05:56 Keeping harvested bulbs under cover after harvesting before wiring up
06:49 Allium leaf miner, less of a problem under cover

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