To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Garlic questions
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:20:13 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
I harvest my garlic when the fifth leaf from the top starts to brown. Each leaf represents a wrapper.The white papery skin. Garlic for storage and appearence should have 4 to 5 good wrappers. A dead leaf wrapper just crumbles away. It is said that if you waite till the curl starts to straighten on the bloom stalk it will store longer. I always just cut them off when they shoot up. If I have plenty of garlic I will select the largest bulbs to replant.
I am about two weeks from harvest here in Southern Ohio