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I've dealt with this before, but I'm too brain dead right now to remember, so I'd appreciate someone reminding me....

Growing garlic had it's tops beat down by hail. I thought it would bounce up, it hasn't. We have had a LOT of rain, that area eroded. There are green colored bulbs sticking up from or just sitting on the ground.

Do I need to harvest them or just cover them back up?

 
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Are they soft or hard necked?

If hard I think it would be better to harvest (or leave for green garlic in fall). They are beginning to go dormant in these parts anyway. I haven’t grown much soft necked but suspect they may be different.
 
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The green is due to exposure to the exposure to the sun.

If you decide to leave them in the ground to grow on, cover them deeply.
 
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M Ljin wrote:Are they soft or hard necked?


I honestly don't recall. They have been there for a few years and haven't been harvested.  
 
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Megan Palmer wrote:The green is due to exposure to the sun.


THERE we go! THAT is what I was forgetting. Thank you!
I knew I had dealt with this before....
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Hard necked garlic would have given you scapes by now. Soft necked would still be leafy without a defined stem.
 
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M Ljin wrote:Hard necked garlic would have given you scapes by now. Soft necked would still be leafy without a defined stem.


The green parts were beaten to death by hail. They didn't bounce back, I thought they would.
 
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