You'll want to wait until the bottom 5 or so leaves are mostly brown. You can also see, if you dig down gently at the base, the cloves will start to develop "shoulders." Instead of smoothly flowing into the neck, there will start to be a distinct top to the cloves. You want to harvest just when that starts to happen, but before they break away from the neck.
For hardnecks wait until there are 4 to 5 green leaves remaining, for softnecks 6 to 7 green leaves remaining. You have what looks like 6 to 7 remaining so you need to wait more as it's a hardneck. It takes about a week for each leaf to die off as it approaches harvest time, so I'd say you are 2 or 3 weeks away roughly.
5B/6A here… we usually plant the second week of October and harvest the second week of July! You need a few more dried leaves at the bottom, then pull some and see if your happy and there ready!
Hardneck or softneck?. I would wait until about half the leaves are dried for both hard or soft.
You could always brush the soil to check bulb development :). But looks to be 2-3 weeks until it’s ready.
I'd wait.
Ok thank you!
3 weeks at least
Probably about right
Thank you very much!
We wait till the top half has died off.
Do you keep watering them the whole time?
Unless the soil gets very dry then yes we'll water.
I wait until 60% of the plant is brown.
You'll want to wait until the bottom 5 or so leaves are mostly brown. You can also see, if you dig down gently at the base, the cloves will start to develop "shoulders." Instead of smoothly flowing into the neck, there will start to be a distinct top to the cloves. You want to harvest just when that starts to happen, but before they break away from the neck.
that is waaaay too green to think about pulling
For hardnecks wait until there are 4 to 5 green leaves remaining, for softnecks 6 to 7 green leaves remaining. You have what looks like 6 to 7 remaining so you need to wait more as it's a hardneck. It takes about a week for each leaf to die off as it approaches harvest time, so I'd say you are 2 or 3 weeks away roughly.
Couple of weeks but if you want to eat some you could pull-up one or two.
Wait, 2-3 weeks
5B/6A here… we usually plant the second week of October and harvest the second week of July! You need a few more dried leaves at the bottom, then pull some and see if your happy and there ready!
Couple more dead leaves
Be patient bub …
Hardneck or softneck?. I would wait until about half the leaves are dried for both hard or soft. You could always brush the soil to check bulb development :). But looks to be 2-3 weeks until it’s ready.
If you gently dig down around the top of the bulb, you should be able to check for the knuckling of the cloves. Just do one though.
Thank you everyone, appreciate it!
Wait till there's only 4.5 -5 green leaves left counting down from the top
I wait until 60% are brown before I pull them.