"Alan wrote in message after Dave writes
This year for once we have had a top crop of garlic. They are in
excellent condtion at the moment.

Is it better to leave them in the ground or to pull them up and dry
them out. What happens if we just leave tham untill needed.

Any advice would be gratefully received.

If you could rely on a really good summer, they could be left outside to
continue maturing. In reality, UK summers are often too cool and wet for
us to do that and they are better picked and hung under cover to dry.
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and if you leave them in the ground they will soon split up into the cloves
and resprout.
Get them out and cleaned up, let them dry out for a few days then string
them up somewhere cool and airy. I noticed that in Nepal they hang them from
hooks under the eaves of their houses, Sue won't hear of it, says it would
just confirm our neighbours suspicions. (?) :-)

--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.