I harvested my garlic today!!!
As an asexual, I of course love garlic bread. But in order to make garlic bread you need garlic.
Garlic is one of the easiest to grow crops possible. You just stick a clove of garlic (skin on) into the ground in Oct or Nov and then you harvest it in June. You barely have to do anything at all. If it's hardneck garlic you can harvest the scapes in May, which are great in stir fries or pounded into a pesto. They're resistant to pests and disease, and you can save the biggest cloves from this year's harvest and plant them in the fall! Plus, if you store them in a dark cupboard in a cardboard box they can last all year.
I grow crops based on A) how expensive is it to get at the store and B) how easy is it to grow. Garlic involves literally no work from Oct to June, which means it always gets a spot in my garden!
You DO have to cure them outside in a shaded area so the skin dries out and gets papery. If you have seen pictures of garlic tied into braids hanging from rafters, that's what that's about.
