The garlic has been harvested and hung. 102 stiffneck, 58 softneck bulbs and a couple dozen of our own (stiff?) garlics.
It was different this year - the softneck leaves all seemed to go brown at the same time, and after hanging them today I think we may have been a little late on the harvest. The stiff neck seems to be more normal. Overall the bulbs don't look as big this year as last. The ground seemed rather hard. We had a lot of rain until the last three weeks. The real test will be to see how well they keep. We used all our stiff neck from last year, and have quite a bit of soft neck left over. We did reduce our softneck planting last fall by 40 cloves! So maybe this quantity will be more in line with our needs.
