For the last week or so, we have been pulling up the garlic we started last autumn. It has been a full growth cycle for the bulbs and time for them to get out of the ground. Then we will dry and cure them for weeks before we decide what to do next with them. Some will probably be seed garlic, going right back into the fields to produce more next year. And some may be sold, but hard to say how much we will keep vs sell right now. Waiting for them to all dry and then we can weigh them.
Here are two shelves of the garlic, right now we are up to about 7 of them full. But we are not done harvesting, so will probably use most of them. Buying 25 shelves seemed like a lot, but rather have more than not enough. And then we are ready for expansion when we produce more in the future as well.
About two weeks ago we built out all the shelves that will hold the garlic while it dries and cures. They are just your basic plastic shelves.. but 25 of them.
Took us about half a day to build them all.
The water reel is being brought back into the building. We will drain it and keep it stored until next year. Without this reel, we would have had a complete loss. As the whole growing season we were under an extreme drought. Garlic areas that did not get irrigation did not survive, so it will be important next year to only plant where we can reach with this water reel.
Harvesting is slow going, we only get a few rows done a day. Its hard work, following behind the tractor and pickup and bulbs the machine misses. I usually do this for an hour or two before taking a break. And then coming back to cut and clean the garlic I grabbed.
We pull out bulbs out of the bags, lots of grass mixed in. So it takes some time to go through it all.
They may look dirty now, but we only cleaned them off a little bit. So we do not damage the skin of the bulb.
We will give them a proper cleaning after they dry and cure.
Another day, another row of garlic to pull up.
You can see we are slowly going through the rows. About half way done at this point.
My foreman runs the machine, and I follow behind pulling up any it misses.
Some of the bulbs are on the bigger side, but many are pretty small. Probably next year they need more water, and fertilizing earlier in the year. We added it to the ground in late April when we should have done it late March. Oh well, next year we will do better on many things.
We have to stop the harvester machine sometimes as the grass clogs it up. Next year we also plan on dealing with the weeds better. Shifting the PH did not seem to help as much as we hoped.
Hah my foreman is so happy! We are glad we made it to the end, with actual bulbs! Success!
Its hard to say how much we have yet, we lost some due to the water reel not reaching parts of the field. Along with the extreme drought. So not sure if we had a net gain or loss on garlic bulbs this year.
We started cleaning them more, not sure if this is too much before drying.
I like the system we have, we harvest before it gets really hot outside. And then we take lunch after a few hours in the field. And come back after our food settles to trim and clean off the garlic we collected earlier that day.
May not look like much now, but once all trimmed and cleaned they are nice bulbs.
Well harvesting was going well, until a line burst on the machine.
One of the hydraulic lines was rubbing on the tractor and went unnoticed. So now we are in the process of fixing it. Hopefully we will be back up and running this week. And then finish up harvest in the next week or two.
So with this setback, we are a little behind. But I think there is still time to harvest the rest of the field as long as we get this hose fixed soon.
I remember when you planted that garlic. And now the time has come to harvest it. I have some garlic in my garden, too; it’s really nice to eat your own fresh garlic.
Nice, glad you have been following me since the beginning of this project.
Hope yours comes out good too..
thanks for tip.
Those smaller ones look about like what I pulled up from my garden. I should have kept them and tried again, but I just tossed them over the fence.
Ah yeah they will make good seed garlic I would think.
Big bulbs grow from big cloves.
I would keep the big ones for seeding ;)
You have a nice and professional setup for garlic farming
Ah thanks, yeah the machines are nice to have.
Good harvest, champion!!
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Here in my city, I have several friends who grow garlic—to the point that for some of them, it's their main commercial product. At least you've already got your reserve set aside for the next planting, and that batch looks really good.
What's the price of garlic over there? Here it's about 50 CUP, roughly 0.25 USD per bulb.
Greetings @solominer, make the most of that harvest. Excellent Tuesday!! 😉🤝😊
Oh cool, yeah seems like its quite a profitable crop if you can produce enough. Indeed having what we need to replant is key, any thing extra is just nice to have.
It can sell for anywhere from $5 a pound upwards of $20 for really nice garlic.
This is truly impressive work and effort! It’s very interesting to see the entire process, from harvesting and drying the garlic to planning improvements for the next growing season. Despite the challenges you faced—including extreme drought and equipment issues—the fact that you still managed to produce a harvest is a real accomplishment. I also really appreciate your insights on irrigation, the fertilization schedule, and weed management—it shows that every season brings valuable lessons for improving the next one. I hope your machine gets repaired quickly and that you have a successful end to the harvest. I hope next year’s harvest will be even more abundant and productive
Ah thanks, luckily we are getting the machine back up and running soon. I do hope this issue does not come back, but we shall see.
Great job on that harvest! Too bad that drought hit and some areas couldn't get irrigated as the water reel couldn't reach them. Lessons learned! It looks like a nice harvest though, once it all dries you'll be ready to harvest some more. It's a good thing you have that harvester, pulling up garlic by hand is a nightmare in a huge field like that!
You sure to seem enjoy that farming, it's not easy work. I grew up around a lot of farms and orchards. Not the kind of work I ever enjoyed! I hope you get the hydraulic unfrozen to make the final harvesting much easier though, good luck!
Yeah trying to do it by hand would really be the worst case scenario. But I think we will get the machine running again very soon.
I am enjoying it at the moment, it is all new to me. So ask me in like five years if I still like it.. lol
nice harvest, here we love it is one of the best foods ever even more melted :D
Thanks, we love using garlic in our foods here too.. Its the number one used spice in the house.
Awesome harvest to garlic friend and
Ah thanks.
I thought garlic got planted in the fall?
Yep it is, so the seed garlic we harvest now will dry for a few months and then we will plant it.. Do it all over again next year.
I have owned 1.25 acres fertilized Land, How much I invest and in return much it will give me profit if I grow garlic? give me full business plan.
Nice. Would probably cost a little over $30,000 for the seed garlic. You could produce upwards of $60,000 depending how much you keep to grow for the next year. This is prices for America, I have no idea what local garlic goes for on Jupiter.
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