Garlic Harvest

I harvested my garlic on Saturday. I have a lot of garlic! I planted 2 bulbs of hardneck and 2 bulbs of softneck. It seems like I harvested a lot more than I planted....I mean each clove produces one head, but it seems like I have more heads that I planted cloves. Weird. Most of it turned out a normal size. Some of it was kind of puny. And others are absolutely enormous, like it takes up my entire hand!

Things I learned:
Garlic likes mulch.
Garlic does not like to be crowded. The largest heads were the ones that had the most space and were not crowded by the neighboring Swiss Chard.
Garlic likes water.
Cutting off the scapes really does result in a larger head on the hardneck varieties. I left one scape on to experiment with planting the resulting bulbils. That head was much smaller than the ones from which I had cut the scapes earlier.

I bundled them bunches and they are currently hanging in the garage attic to cure. They make the entire garage smell like garlic. It is supposed to be 98 degrees today. I hope I am not slowly cooking them. Garlic was very easy to grow and I will plant much more in the fall.