Garlic is an amazing crop that not only adds wonderful flavor to anything you cook, it has many healing properties. I know many people that eat raw garlic to fight away colds and other symptoms. Garlic is also one of the easier crops for us to grow. We plant the seeds in early Fall and store them in the ground under a nice layer of mulch. a few weeks before we harvest the garlic from the ground we pick off the "scapes" which is essentially the flower. We snap this off to cause the plant to produce a larger bulb. The best part is you can eat the scapes. After we havest the garlic we cure it hanging in our barn so that it will store for the rest of the winter and be ready for planting again in the fall. Almost a third of our garlic crop is saved as seed for the next crop.