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[Baphom3t]

This year I decided to plant a couple single cloves of garlic. I planted these in the late spring and they grew green stalks like you see in the pic but there was only two leave shoots. They both died out during the summer and came back this past couple weeks with three leaves instead two.
I've read that this should have a bulb since the addition of the third leave shoot, but I am uncertain. I've also read that you can plant in the spring and harvest by the first frost or plant in the fall and harvest in the following spring.
Now, I've never grown garlic so, when is soft neck garlic ready to harvest. Is this ready to harvest?  If any of my fellow topiate's can lend a hand that'd be awesome.

Edited by Baphom3t, 22 October 2020 - 08:02 PM.

[Moonless]

This is awesome!

 

Garlic is really forgiving and easy to grow in even the loamist of soils. Just FYI you can plant like five plants in each pot.

 

I don't think its ready to harvest, the plant can get pretty big actually and have like 10 leaves. I would treat this plant as if you planted it in the fall since it died down over the summer and recently popped back up.

[Mycol]

I have only planted garlic in the fall and harvested in the spring . I actually ordered 20 pounds of purple garlic to plant and it should Be here today . Garlic needs to undergo two weeks of really cold weather for the cloves to divide .

When about 1/3-1/2 of the garlic leaves are brown it’s ready . Kind of like when the hairs start turning red on cannabis . Also like cannabis it will need to be cured to be stored as well as to concentrate the flavor.

[mushit]

I also grow garlic but only outdoors in a garden.  Fall planting is a must IMHO.

 

The tip of the stipes (sp) can be divided to make more garlic.  These are the seeds.  They will have to grow through the second year to form bulbs.

 

Mycol, I like to harvest when the first leaf or two are brown.  The leaves are part of the protective paper that surrounds the bulb and the individual cloves.  So the more that are left there, the longer it will last.  And it also protects the cloves when they are used for planting.

 

This is a wonderful plant.  Not only for flavor, but it has great healing properties as well.  Especially the heart and circulatory system.

 

When I am chopping it up, I will take a piece here, and a piece there and chew on it.

 

Mmmmmmmm...... I'm getting hungry.

[Mycol]

Mushit if you’re talking about the scape and the bulbils that grow at the end of it that you can plant then you’d be growing a hard-neck garlic . Softneck doesn’t have a scape. Those scapes are delicious too if you want to forgo having bulbils, It’ll make your bulbs bigger if you harvest the scapes off of them too .

Yeah half the leaves brown could be a bit late especially if you have a rain come down . I start pulling a few test bulbs at 2-3 brown leaves and make an assessment based on the consensus size and upcoming weather . The garlic grows quickly at the very end so timing can be tricky .

I hope my crop is good this year because I am going to pickle a bunch if I can . I can eat pickled by the pint . All I could get was a big bag of chesnok red this year . Why does it have to take so long to grow ???

[mushit]

That's it.  The scapes.

Yes, hardneck is all I grow.  Have tried the soft neck but I don't like the small  cloves as well as the large.  Hard neck grows uniform cloves.

Pickled garlic.  Now that is something I must try.  Sounds yummy.

[Baphom3t]

I got a couple cloves of hard neck I plan on planting but, I'm not sure if it's too late in the season to plant them.
Yesterday was damn near 80 degrees and today it's like 45 degrees.
If it's not to late to plant the hard neck, I'll more than likely plop them in the ground today after I get done with school.
I like hard neck over soft neck. The flavor is just better I.M.O
As for the soft neck I got going, I'm guessing I should let them continue growing till spring.
Soft neck doesn't produce a scape with bulbils only hard neck does.
But like @mushit when I go to cut it up I love to chew on some of it.

[mushit]

Yes.  Plant them now.  Anytime before there is snow on the ground.

[Mycol]

Mine got delayed and will be here Monday, would’ve liked the weather to have been a little warmer when I started but it’s not freezing here yet and I’ve got them going in a DEEEP mulch so they’ll be cozy enough to grow some tiny roots before it gets too cold .

Yeah just get them going soon . Planting too late can actually work out better than too early .