The garlic-circle ends

Finally! The garlic is ready for harvesting!

Two weeks ago the time has come: the garlic was ready to be harvested. On the left side the sort Messidrome, on the right Casablanca.

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That’s how it looks directly after it has been pulled out of the soil and washed carefully with the garden hose:

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The I hang them up under the roof for drying and maturing:

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After two weeks the garlic looks like this:

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Cut off the dry and loose parts of the plant and the roots from the bulb:

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Finally braid it,

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and hang up in the kitchen:

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This year we got around 80 garlic bulbs, should be enough for a year 😉

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