One of our staple crops is garlic. The dogma is "plant on the shortest day of the year and harvest on the longest" but in practice we tend to plant earlier (April to May) to give the bulbs more growing time.
This year we harvested in the first week of December as the heads had formed and with all of the late rain were best not left in the wet. It was a great year with well formed and large bulbs which we dried on the kids trampoline for a week or so, before cleaning and hanging under our verandah.
We have about 400 heads which is enough for our year's eating and seed for next year. This variety that we have grown is some unknown purple variety that is large and tastes great but keeps OK.
We found another variety which is also purplish but a hard-necked one that kept for a full year. Right now we are bulking up this variety to grow for next year.
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