In message , Sue & Bob Hobden
writes

"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.


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,

We've just pulled some of ours and I'm going to hang it under the
carport (great things carports - a nice big open but covered outside
space - everyone should have one, even if they haven't got a car)

We've had problems before when they got left to long and sprouted again.
I'm not sure they are really going to anything much more anyway seeing
as the foliage is starting to brown now anyway.
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Chris French and Helen Johnson, Leeds
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