I'm real glad this question and replies were posted as I was wondering the same thing. Growing some garlic this year for the first time, and I've asked a couple of questions about it here before.
What I've got is about 3 dozen plants of hardneck garlic, variety unknown. I removed the scapes and we used some of those in stir fry and sandwiches and I pickled the rest. Best I can tell, the bulbs are close to 2" in diameter now so probably full size, and each plant has only about one leaf at the bottom that's turned brown - they still look pretty green and vigorous.
From what I've read I was going to wait until July 1 to pull these, but since NC has about the same climate as here maybe it's time now???? Thanks again for the good info posted here - now I know how to handle the garlic bulbs after I pull them.
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