There are a lot of small details to keep track of with growing garlic. You’ve spent the season tending to your garlic. Now it's time to harvest…or is it? Come join us and sort out all the details!
Target Audience:
● Home Gardeners that wish to demystify the whole process of growing and harvesting garlic. We'll discuss what gets you from planting up to harvest, and then getting the bulbs out of the ground and drying them down properly in order to maximize storage time.
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, share experiences, and gain personalized insights with their own garlic harvest.
By the end of the workshop participants will leave with a comprehensive understanding of how to grow and and when to harvest garlic, gain insight into some diseases that can affect dry down andstorage, and have knowledge of several different methods for drying down garlic.
**Bonus** Attendees will be entitled to a DISCOUNT CODE for 15% off seed garlic available shortly.
Growing and Harvesting Garlic - Summer 2025
Workshop Overview:
Duration (2.5 hours)Overview: The workshop is designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to grow and especially how to evaluate when to harvest, how to harvest, how to dry down and store garlic effectively for culinary and seed saving purposes.
Skills Learned:
Growing Garlic Overview: Cradle to grave preparation to get a good plantout and future harvest.
Field Harvesting: Participants will learn proper digging techniques as well as bulb handling during the harvest to ensure garlic of the highest quality.
Diseases: Participants will learn how to evaluate the presence of diseases in garlic bothabove ground and in the bulbs and how to mitigate the issues that might arise during
harvesting to ensure diseases do not spread.Dry Down: Participants will learn about several of the curing configurations used for drying down garlic effectively after the harvest and when it is appropriate to use each method.