First of our garlic

Lifted these today. We were delighted with the size as they were grown from cloves from a bulb that we brought back from Greece last September.

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Shouldn't you have left them in Dave?

I thought you left garlic in the ground until late summer?

 

I wasn't really sure Pete, but the lower leaves were starting to brown and the plants were flopping over and since we'll soon be going away on holiday I thought it might be safer to lift them.
They were planted in a flower trough in the polytunnel in early November and moved outside about 4 weeks ago so they've been growing pretty rapidly compared with an outdoor crop.

 

They look ready to use now, but if there was loads of them they should've be left a bit longer and cured/dried before saving, but as only 3 bulbs that's irrelevant as it's a cracking early crop!

The question is, as they have done so well, will you re-plant some in the autumn?

 

They're hanging drying now and I intend saving some cloves to plant in Autumn. We'll also bring back another bulb or two when we go back to Greece in September.

 

we planted some garlic in march the stems/ leaves look like the ones in the OP`s photo but I have no idea when to pull them - I was thinking to leave tem in until they stared to die back but is this wrong ?

 

Dave W's Autumn planted garlic is exceptionally early, Spring planted garlic will be ready later. Wait until the tops start to yellow (or it will look like a spring onion if you lift it now).

 

ah ok good stuff

thanks scrungee

 

I agree, a bit early. I do find though that Garlic is pretty much ready to harvest much earlier than Onions, for instance. I normally wait until the tops have pretty much had it, maybe early July? I should keep a diary

 

Best get it out while you still know where it is.

Casn't find it once the tops die back