There are handy tips in this video, for spotting when your Garlic is ready to harvest. 

Charles Dowding explains that you don't always need to wait for leaves to turn, and he shows you how to scoop away the top layer of earth, to find your garlic treasure, bulbed up and ready to be preserved at home. 

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When you harvest, carefully pull up without snapping the stem, perhaps use a trowel. Then peel away a few outer layers and hang to dry, chevck out Kate’s Lesson: ‘Garlic Plaiting’

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These garlic have been grown in the Homeacres polytunnel, where they are harvested a little earlier and were inter-sowed with the salads. There are a few varieties of garlic to try growing, such as Hardneck, which can be left to make green garlic or for enjoying the scapes before harvesting the bulb!