Dear Charles
I harvested some french and Italian softneck and hardneck garlics this week. The leaves started yellowing, they had some rust on them but the stems looked very thick and promising.
I ended up harvesting all of them as I noticed the skin on the bulbs was splitting although the bulbs were small and the cloves not well formed. There were also some little brown maggots in some of them.
Should I have left them in the ground longer? Would they have grown larger?
Your advice is very much appreciated as I am a bit disappointed with this year’s harvest.