Garlic Harvest

Every day last week the boy was asking me when we were going to harvest our garlic. He had even taken to carrying some garlic around in his pocket as he wanted to plant it! 

I didn't want to do it without him so waited until the weekend when we could dig it up together. 

It's always a gamble knowing what you're going to pull up, but this year the bulbs were a great size and looked really healthy. Even the leaves weren't covered in their usual layer of rust!

We had three sorts in - a hard neck, a soft neck and some elephant garlic. A bed of each so took up a fair bit of growing area. I've no idea on what varieties the two normal garlics are as I've been planting them for a number of years now, they taste good and store well though so that's the main thing. 

I'll leave these to dry off in the greenhouse for a bit (its not too hot this week) and then find somewhere better to store them. They smell incredible and it was all I could smell all day afterwards. 

I managed to talk my helper down from planting them straight away and convince him that we could make some garlic bread instead and just wait a few months to plant out the best cloves. 

Who else has had a good garlic harvest this year?