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Old 28-06-2015, 02:43 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Terry Coombs Terry Coombs is offline
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Default First garlic harvest

Gary Woods wrote:
"Terry Coombs" wrote:

When the leaves turned brown halfway up I dug up a couple , they had
nice bulbs . Then I read that I should wait until the foilage is all
brown , but I think any time after half is brown will work


If you wait until all leaves are dead, you won't have good wrappers
on the bulb. Half brown is fine; by then the bulbs are as big as
they're going to get.


Good to know that , thanks !

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