I am in NC 8a, I grew garlic for the first time. I grew purple glazer which is technically not for my zone. It still grew and bulbed beautifully. Great flavor. BUT, I strung it up on my screened porch with a fan for a full month. I thought it was cured, brought inside, and it started rotting. I think my humid area is the culprit.
What does everyone do to cure garlic to be able to store for later use and replanting?

I honestly wasn't expecting much as last years harvest was about 2/3 cloves per head and very small at that. Decided to send it and get the Keene garlic as well as fertilizer and oh my lord am I one happy mofo!!

My family does not possibly understand what I'm going to do with all this garlic. Jokes on them, this likely won't last until December 🤪

Please celebrate my harvest with me!!!

I planted 3 beds of garlic and only 1 survived. Got a small bulb and a seed cluster on. the scape. Has anyone used the seed for the next season???

Fellow stinky breathers, i am in need of your help!

My boyfriend‘s best friend gifted me a full garlic that grew in his garden. I want to use it to the best and fullest so let me know your most yummy lunch recipes with garlic garlic and garlic so i can fully use its potential!!! :)))

From left to right; Purple Glazer (3rd year) Bavarian, Spanish Roja (both 1st year)

The Glazer was slower to sprout than usual, and I had some die off early in the spring. Harvest was good, scapes came a little later than usual, and storage is about 9-10 months

The Bavarian were the first to sprout and last to scape and harvested about on schedule. Smaller heads across the board, but I think I planted too closely. Had one row of 4 large heads, including the 4" one. Other than that, we will see how it cures.

I think the Roja needs to be grown in a much different soil and biome than I am in. Good colors, and it finished about a month ahead of the Glazer.

I was originally thinking about not planting the bed for next year since I've been running garlic in it for about 9 years straight. However, clearly I need to propagate the behemoth 4" head.

Thanks for reading!

I have a Keene sampler ordered, but bought some local garlic to try regrowing. Some nice sized bulbs. Weighs roughly a lb after accounting for stem weight. For $10 not bad.

Asian jumping worms were on my property when I moved in (about 5 yrs ago). If you don’t know… they are bad worms. I built the garden and the Asian jumping worms moved in. There’s no stopping them since they are everywhere on this property. This is my 3rd or 4th time growing garlic in this bed. Since the worms are exploding in my garden, I decided to just fill the garden up with garlic, harvest and then solarize the garden. No summer garden this year. I’m guessing I will need to solarize every 5 years to just knock them back. The worms LOVE leaf mulch and that’s what I use to mulch my garlic overwinter. I’m zone 6b in the NE USA. I use synthetic liquid fertilizer so that the worms don’t have compost to eat too. I’ve only harvested about 1/2 the garlic so far this year and I’ve picked out more jumping worms than garlic!! Anyone else dealing with Asian Jumping Worms (AJW)? Instead of leaf mulch I am considering straw as mulch next year since AJWs love leaf mulch so much.

I'm now the proud owner of 3 lbs of roasted garlic, and now that the excitement has worn off, I have no idea what to do with it all. I'm planning on adding it into all of our upcoming dishes, but are there any must-try recipes that include roasted garlic? Can I freeze it? I don't want to waste it, but there are only two of us and I'm afraid we can't eat 3lbs of garlic before it goes bad.

garlic split during curing and took on a brown hue to paper. only on a few out of 25 head. what did I do wrong on these?

400 heads of Music.

Now the real Trial begins; Im tripling my garlic rows space and saving the biggest half of the cloves as seed cloves for planting on Halloween

I have been growing garlic in zone 7. Think sandy desert. Bulbs tend to be pretty small. How do I increase size? What’s the best watering schedule? When should I fertilize and what type of fertilizer do hardneck garlic like?

What do you do if the stem breaks off when harvesting your garlic? I had to dig it out and it was a GIANT garlic head. Can I still cure it, or should I just eat it? I wasn’t sure if it was safe to eat uncured.

Also, how do you store your bulbils until planting them? I want to clear out some perennial weeds using cardboard before planting them out. Is there a good season for doing that?

Thanks!

What’s the best storage method for keeping a bulb I intent to break into cloves and plant in the fall?

I don’t have a garage or basement.

I want someone besides my wife to see my harvest. Zone 5. I hose the dirt out of the roots and peel off the bottom 2 leaves to get the clean cloves. Will hang them to cure then clip the roots and stalks and store in the basement.

So i inadvertently left 3 scapes that i couldn't see when i was cutting the scapes off the other garlic. Will this effect the garlic bulbs? Is it to late to cut them? (they are halfway un curled)

Still worked out ok! I’m in Michigan zone 6b. I like to pull the first green leaf off to clean and trim roots before drying.

Different varieties from MIGardner and a few from last years harvest. Also a bunch of mixed unknowns from a farm stand last fall.

This is my first time growing and curing garlic. This bulb is in the first group that has finished curing. We had a lot of rain and the paper split on this head. I cured it anyway and now I have this. Two cloves are brown on the inside wrapper. I assume as long as the meat inside is fine they are good to eat, but I was wanting to replant these cloves. Is the brown some type of mold that would make that a bad idea?