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[flowerbug]

I will need some help from my family harvesting my garlic, which is now a "dirty word." I harvested scapes from the porcelain garlic 2 weeks ago. IF I need to harvest the bulbs one month later, that means I could harvest at least 1 day before my surgery, and then get outside a week or so later in July to harvest the rest. I cut 43 scapes, thus 43 bulbs.
Yesterday I cut 23 scapes from the German Red Garlic, so I am guessing I harvest those end of July, so doable.
Advice, @flowerbug?

i'm not a person who's grown a lot of different varieties of garlic and each one may be different so that some learning might be needed to figure out the best harvest time.

the garlic i normally grow that i sent you i tend to let it get yellow leaves on about half the plant and then i think about harvesting it. sometimes i then forget or get interrupted and don't get it out of the ground until later when it might be past the prime time. i have such heavy soils that they can stick to the bulbs when i get them out of the ground if it has been raining.

i still consider myself an amateur garlic grower because i don't have a lot of experience with a lot of different types of garlic - even if i've been growing this one type for 20 years or more...

 

[heirloomgal]

@heirloomgal , I only had 5 Alaska peas sprout. I let them develop pods and they are starting to dry out. How long should I wait to harvest them for seeds for Fall planting?
I figure that you're the expert!

Once the pods are dry to the touch, I'd pick them and put them in a paper envelope so they can breathe and complete the drying process fully. Some peas shatter really easily once they dry but I don't think Alaska is one of those, so you have some wiggle room.