Garlic Year

June.

The garlic will be harvested in July and then dried, cleaned and plaited by our band of garlic cleaners, plaiters and grappers. Quality is excellent this year but we rely on our Island sun to continue the drying and curing process.

The garlic bulb, exposed to sufficient heat, will dry and go into deep senescence, prior to reawaking in late autumn or spring with thoughts of propagating itself and pushing out a green shoot. By drying the bulb thoroughly and causing the minimum of shock to it by leaving the stem entire in a plait, we delay the onset of regrowth as long as possible. Plaits and grappes are the best way to store your garlic.

Harvesting garlic the traditional way

Garlic Harvesting - Loading the harvest onto trailers

Making a garlic grappe (posey)