I am looking to trade other variety of garlic: Spanish Roja; Romanian red; Italian purple strip; Shantung, Xian. No bulbils please, Thanks Wendy

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Thank you everyone for your suggestions. The GW 'Send follow-ups to original poster" function seems to be not working and the only reply I got was this last one from Tracy today. I picked up some 'Heirloom' garlic just yesterday for planting. That's all the package said: Heirloom and it was local Ontario grown. Time is limited, but I will try to find some of these other suggestions. We have a large farmers' market in the downtown area where I got my original cloves of hard-necked garlic where I may find some. I have tried one soft-necked type (forget which one), but it didn't do well: very small bulbs with under-developed cloves. Thank you all.

Inulover - those bulbs should be good for planting. Did you take the bulb wrappers off the Glazed PS and the German White after harvest or did they lose their wrappers before harvest? I have no experience with vernalizing prior to planting in warm climates so I will let someone else comment on that. MrChip - Can you give us you location so we can better advise on when to harvest. There really is not a foolproof method to determine when to harvest. Basically when 40-50% of the green foliage has browned is recommended. I tend to error on the side of early rather than late and the weather forecast plays a big role for me. I do not like to harvest the garlic when it is muddy as I believe it makes it more difficult to cure the bulbs. As far as where to cure, a tent or canopy would work in a pinch but I would keep the garlic up off the ground at least. As long as you keep it dry, out of the sun, and provide good air flow it should be OK. Do you have a friend or relative that has a shed or outbuilding that you could use for a few weeks? I prefer to hang my garlic in bundles of 6-8 plants as it cures. I pulled the trigger on harvesting my Estonia Red yesterday. Only 15 planted and 15 harvested. This type was my worst last year for getting neck rot but no neck rot this year. I planted every clove from the only 3 bulbs that were still in good shape at planting time so a few of the seed cloves were rather small. Of the 15 harvested, 11 were over 2", 5 of those were over 2.5" with the largest at about 2 7/8". 2 appear to be rounds or small differentiate bulbs about 3/4". We are going to have mostly highs in the 90s starting in a few days which should hasten the garlic along and no rain in the forecast until June 13 so I may be harvesting more in the next week.