Each year we grow garlic, planting the tiny cloves in October.
They do like moisture but not drowning or they will rot. This year we grew Provence Wight garlic and elephant garlic. This is not a true garlic but from the leek family, but looks like giant garlic bulbs. A much milder taste than normal garlic.
The garlic should be ready to harvest when the leaves turn yellow, this is in June, much earlier than the shallots and onions which were also planted in October.
With the very wet winter and alternate days of very hot then much colder weather this Spring/ early summer , we wondered what they would be like.
It was a good harvest, decent sized bulbs and the elephant garlic are the biggest we have ever grown.
We probably should have harvested a couple of weeks earlier as many of the cloves are separating but they will still taste as good.
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