We planted two varieties a hard neck variety called "Music". I bought the garlic seed at the Steveston Farmers' Market from a Cawston farmer. the soft neck variety was the Spanish Roja we had put aside last year from our harvest.
I learnt that the hard neck makes a flower but the soft neck does not. I also learnt that you know that the hard neck is ready when the flower stalk unfurls from corkskrew curl to straight. The soft neck you know when the leaves start to die back and turn brown.
We got a great harvest of garlic out of our CSA garden. Some for clients, some for seed and if there is any left at the end of the season, some for the "farmers".
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