Topic: bolted garlic

[aquilegia]

About half of my garlics have bolted. I dug one up and the bulbs is still quite small (smaller than what you buy from the supermarket).

Should I harvest it now or can I leave it in a little longer?

The buds are so bizarre looking!

[tim]

Sad - but better than the rot.
Lift now! And use, or preserve  - because they won't keep.= Tim

[aquilegia]

THanks.

There wouldn't be any left from the amount we use anyway!

[Multiveg]

Some of the garlics as part of their normal growth, throw up a flower doofy (called a scape?) which, according to Tuckers for one variety, should be half chopped off two-three weeks before lifting.

[aquilegia]

which variety is it MV?

[tim]

One such is Purple Wight. = Tim

[Multiveg]

Meditteranean is the one in the Tuckers catalogue. Does Rocambole ring a bell with this type of garlic?

If you have elephant garlic, that needs to be harvested just before the flowers open.