"Norma J. Briggs" nbriggs@(NO SPAM)houston.rr.com wrote in message
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I know this is a silly question for the old timers, but...I live in
zone 9
and planted mine (the garlic) in the fall since we have very warm
winters-never even a light freeze-now I have no idea when I should
harvest
it.
Are there signs I look for when it is ready?

In our version of zone 9 (AZ Desert), the best time is when there are
still about three green leaf blades on the plant. Each leaf blade
represents a wrapper around the bulb and if you wait until all of the
leaves turn brown there is nothing to hold the blades together. In our
region, this usually happens in May for true garlic (early June for
elephant garlic) if the cloves (or rounds) are planted in October.
Olin