When the bottom few leaves are dried and brown, the garlic is ready for harvest. I will show you photos of the ready plants, along with tips on how to lift them from the ground and how to cure them for long term storage.
Name: Evan Pioneer Valley south, MA, USA (Zone 6a)
Any recommendations for an eye watering garlic or a good garlic for New England. I'm very ignorant of types. I planted supermarket produce dept. "elephant" garlic (silver skin, I think hard neck?) and the typical Gilroy (CA) garlic. All the elephant garlic yielded one huge clove of very very mild flavor. The other yielded multi-clove but smaller bulbs, also milder than what I can buy.
I find Garlic (Allium sativum 'Metechi') to be very strong. In fact if I eat it I still feel it the following day. Of course, I like my garlic that way.
