Hey there and happy June. June is typically the time of year where I can expect to harvest my

garlic for sure and many times I harvest my onions in June as well. Of course this depends on where

you're located. Many of you may have already harvested your garlic and your onions and many of you

won't be doing it until later in the summer.

But this is something that I have found, especially with beginning gardeners, is that the harvest

kind of takes them by surprise. You know what I'm talking about? You try so hard to grow these

things, and then it actually works, and then the the harvest time comes and then you're like,

oh shoot, what do I do now? How do I harvest this? What do I do with all this now? Well, if that's

you or maybe in the future, you hope that's going to be you, I wanted to dedicate this episode

to a question that I get a lot, especially from new growers of

garlic and onions. Many of you all are growing garlic for the first time. Maybe you attended my

garlic growing workshop last fall, and it's time for you to start thinking about how you're going to

use it. Or if you might be like me and onions are a staple in your kitchen and you put

a lot of focus on that. Well, what we want to do is we want to make sure that with our garlic and with

our onions, these very critical staples in many of our kitchens, we want to make sure that we can

use them for as long as possible. With garlic, I use my garlic all year round.

I don't have to buy garlic at the grocery store because of my garden, but not just because I

grow it, but because I know how to harvest it, cure it, and store it properly. And then with onions,

I have every year been able to get a little

bit better at lasting longer before I have to supplement at the grocery store. And my goal is

eventually to get to a year-round use with my onions like I did with my garlic. But again, a lot of that

depends on some factors such as how you store it and some

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