Red Inchelium garlic - medium sized cloves.
Separated and planted each garlic clove in November of 2008, about 2-3 inches below ground and covered them with a thick (4 inch) leaf cover and pine straw. Harvested them in May of 2009. They need 7 months to lay dormant and then to grow. Great tasting! Harvest just before the stems are about ready to bend over and break so that bacteria and rot do not get into a broken stem.
We washed them with a hose sprayer through a plastic basket and let the water run back into the garden. We layed them out singly on a tray with a kitchen towel under it to absorb the moisture. They dried like this on a covered porch during very rainy weather and did not mildew or mold.
We will use some to replant this fall and of course eat the rest! Wish we had planted 5 times as many!
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