Hardneck Garlic

This morning the reminder of the hardneck garlic at home was dug up.  There were approximately 20 each of the Brown Saxon, Northern Quebec, Georgian Fire, Red Russian and McEwen’s Red.  There are still 5 plants of each in the ground that are waiting for the bulbils to finish maturing.   After digging them I separated them all into their own bushel basket and then tagged them all at once.  They were all tied into individual bundles of 5 and then when I went to tag them I tied 2 bundles together and attached a tag.  The tag starts the varietal, variety, area grown, date picked and the number of bulbs in the bunch.   After tying them all up into bunches they were hung from nails in the rafters of the blacksmith shop.  It does get a little warm up there but with some of the windows open and the fact that it is pretty wide open, I feel that they should get more than enough air movement to dry properly. 

That is all of the garlic separated, tied and labelled before I hung it up.

The bulbs look pretty good with a good mixture of medium to large bulbs.  The McEwen’s red is the smallest bulbs I have but they were grown from smaller cloves so wasn’t really sure what to expect.  All of the porcelains are pretty big with the odd small bulb.  Overall I am happy with the way the garlic turned out.