{"id":5284,"date":"2025-07-18T14:11:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T18:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2025-08-02T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T18:13:09","slug":"garlic-harvest-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=5284","title":{"rendered":"Garlic Harvest 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\" — From left to right: hardnecks, shallots, softnecks<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Today, I harvested my garlic. A little later than in previous years, but it had just not been ready for harvest a week or so ago. I harvested 16 hardnecks (Red Russian<\/em>) and 20 softnecks (Transylvania<\/em>). I had originally planted 15 and 20, respectively, but one of the hardnecks split and produced two heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Garlic drying on the porch<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I will air-dry them on the porch (away from the sun) for a couple of days and then hang them in my back hallway to cure until the leaves are completely dry and the hardneck stalks very firm. This typically takes about two weeks for the softnecks and three weeks for the hardnecks. I will then clean them, remove all dirt and the very outer papery layer, trim the stalks of the hardnecks and braid the softnecks. But not before I put the largest heads aside as seed garlic for the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Nicely sized Transylvania softneck<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I also planted shallots this spring, but only three of the many I planted grew. Not sure what went wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Shallot harvest 2025 \ud83d\ude41<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hardnecks to the left of the string, softnecks on the right<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DYI shade rig. Umbrellas weighed down by gardening tools \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, I harvested my garlic. A little later than in previous years, but it had just not been ready for harvest a week or so ago. I harvested 16 hardnecks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,27,30,22,51,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garlic","category-garlic-garlic","category-harvest","category-in-the-garden","category-preserving","category-summer","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

\"\" — From left to right: hardnecks, shallots, softnecks<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Today, I harvested my garlic. A little later than in previous years, but it had just not been ready for harvest a week or so ago. I harvested 16 hardnecks (Red Russian<\/em>) and 20 softnecks (Transylvania<\/em>). I had originally planted 15 and 20, respectively, but one of the hardnecks split and produced two heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Garlic drying on the porch<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I will air-dry them on the porch (away from the sun) for a couple of days and then hang them in my back hallway to cure until the leaves are completely dry and the hardneck stalks very firm. This typically takes about two weeks for the softnecks and three weeks for the hardnecks. I will then clean them, remove all dirt and the very outer papery layer, trim the stalks of the hardnecks and braid the softnecks. But not before I put the largest heads aside as seed garlic for the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Nicely sized Transylvania softneck<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I also planted shallots this spring, but only three of the many I planted grew. Not sure what went wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Shallot harvest 2025 \ud83d\ude41<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Hardnecks to the left of the string, softnecks on the right<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
DYI shade rig. Umbrellas weighed down by gardening tools \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, I harvested my garlic. A little later than in previous years, but it had just not been ready for harvest a week or so ago. I harvested 16 hardnecks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,27,30,22,51,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garlic","category-garlic-garlic","category-harvest","category-in-the-garden","category-preserving","category-summer","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1ne","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}