Most of the garlic is hard-necks and even the soft-necks grew scapes, so these are a bit difficult to braid. I did it last year by softening the central stem by twisting and then was able to get them braided. I hung the braids in kitchen and they stayed edible until we got new ones from this year's crop. Here is my harvest last year.
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Now when I look the photo of last year's harvest, I wonder what are we going to do with all of the new harvest. We eat a lot of garlic, but that is a lot for family of 3. Some of the new cloves will be planted and some given as gifts, so we do not have to eat all of it ourselves, still I think that we are going to stink this winter
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