So I harvested my garlic today! Which was exciting and not exciting. I love having homegrown garlic but it was still really to early to harvest my garlic. But considering most of the foliage had died off I had no choice.

Here's the bunch right out of the ground:

I then proceeded to pull off the outer dirty layer of each bulb.

While the above bulb is pretty and whole, that was not the case for over half of the garlic I pulled.

As you can see there is no nice outer skin and its more like a cluster of cloves than a bulb. Although fortunately I planted enough garlic that my "good harvest" wasn't too shabby.

I also attempted to braid the good garlic, but with this being a hardneck variety it didn't braid too easily. I may have to let them sit for a little bit before I'm able to get a nice braid.

I'm excited to have homegrown garlic again and can't wait to try some! With the bulbs being so freshly picked and peeled, my kitchen already smells strongly of garlic. yum!