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!
Sad - but better than the rot.
Lift now! And use, or preserve - because they won't keep.= Tim
THanks.
There wouldn't be any left from the amount we use anyway!
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.
which variety is it MV?
One such is Purple Wight. = Tim
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.