With some care and compost hardneck garlic is an easy crop to grow and store for your family. Pulling up fresh garlic bulbs from your garden is a task we look forward to every season. You tuck them into the soil right before winter takes hold, and then their fresh, strappy green leaves push through the ground during the early spring, signaling that a new garden season has arrived. Hardneck garlic has distinctive and edible spiral-forming seed heads, known as scapes that form in late spring to early summer. Keeping these scapes picked helps the plants develop larger bulbs, plus they can used in many ways. Buy hardneck garlic from Pinetree Garden Seeds and you will be ready to harvest the bulbs during the summer, at about the same time as you could be making your first batch of pickles.
