Gotta Love Garlic!

Big Guy planted our garlic last fall so it could mature and prepare for harvest this summer. It appears, like most things this year, that our harvest came early to our south bed.

The recent hailstorm forced us to pull one of the garlic as the storm damaged the scape. As I pulled out the garlic, I was amazed at the size and quickly showed it off to Big Guy. We decided to pull the entire bed and I am eagerly waiting to use them in the kitchen once they are properly dried and prepared for storage.

As part of our ongoing experiments, we have another bed of garlic that we planted on the west wall which appears will be ready at its usual time around the fourth of July. I am excited to use fresh garlic again. I have a jar of minced garlic in the pantry as a backup, but nothing beats it out of the garden.