Garlic Harvest

It was time to dig up the garlic this weekend. The garden is looking so lush and lovely, but the garlic has been getting browner. This is when you know it is time to harvest, when all the green dies back.

I planted most of the garlic in October, but we lost almost all of our crop in November because the weather as so wet and cold. I replanted with some Russian red garlic I bought at a winter market in December. Although it was late in the season, I decided to plant it.


I had to drill into the frozen soil in order to plant the cloves, and I was afraid it wouldn't work, but it did! It was a good thing too, because I wouldn't have any garlic this year. Maybe I will plant all my garlic in December from now on.