How Yellow Does My Garlic Need To Be?

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SalB

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How Yellow Does My Garlic Need To Be?
« on: June 05, 2009, 11:53 »
I've read up on harvesting my garlic and it says to harvest when the leaves are beginning to turn yellow.

How yellow is yellow? and do I need to wait for all the leaves on each plant to be turning yellow , or just a couple on each plant?

I planted mine at the end of October last year and there are leaves that are going yellow on each of the plants , but some that are still quite green and standing upright.

Should I harvest them now or wait a bit longer? Also my elephant garlic appears to be growing a flower , as well as the leaves turning yellow ..... help! Don't know what to do!  ???

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Re: How Yellow Does My Garlic Need To Be?
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2009, 12:26 »
Mine look a bit like that and as one was in 'the way' a week or so ago so i pulled it........it was still like a leek with no bulb :(................so my advice would be to leave them alone for a good while yet :)

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Re: How Yellow Does My Garlic Need To Be?
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2009, 14:26 »
In my experiance garlic seems capable of looking on it's way for quite a long time!... i think it just likes teasing me  ;)

I don't plan on even looking at mine till the strat of next of the month.. i find whole lonest day thing to be  bit of a nonsence... for me they need till mid July sometimes later.

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Re: How Yellow Does My Garlic Need To Be?
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2009, 18:04 »
Not sure why but I seem to recall reading that 2/3 of the leaves had to have turned brown.

I think the idea being that the garlic was definately at the end and so should be harvested.


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