Garlic Harvest 2010
Last week I took off from my desk job to work on the garlic harvest. It’s hot and slow work, but as with all farm tasks there’s a profound sense of accomplishment when it’s complete. There are also some great surprises along the way. The spider in the gallery below was the coolest one!
This year, we got some help from college student Stephanie (pictured below) with pulling the garlic. As with every year I learned a few things this year. I already knew this, but I need to change my some of my harvest dates for the garlic depending on the variety. Doing this will make the process easier and will result in better keeping garlic. The harvest this year was complicated a bit by the rain we got just about every day last week. For the most part, the rain was contained to short events, so I was able to work around it.
I have my list of projects for next year’s harvest, not the least of which is a new hanging method. My wrist is killing me from all that staple gun work.
