Garlic Harvest

We are beginning to harvest garlic this week. A lot is grown here, it is braided and given as gifts as well as cooked with here. (The picture of unharvested garlic was taken on the sunny side last week when it wasn't quite ready to harvest, it gets more brown and fallen over before it is harvested.)

This morning we harvested two half beds of it on the shady side. We will also be harvesting it on the sunny side soon. A couple weeks ago I harvested a Chinese variety which is an early garlic. Today we harvested Siberian and Romanian garlic. We are trying to keep the different varieties separate. We will be drying it in piles in the shade so it doesn't cook while drying then cleaning it and braiding it.

I wonder if the Romanian garlic was specially bred to be better at keeping vampires away.