Garlic Harvest

Final Update for 2020...

For the past couple of weeks, the garlic box has been fermenting a fine mix of chicken, steer and sheep manure mixed with a new load of black earth. That was repeatedly mixed well and readied for today's planting:

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I use an old electrical power-line insulator and the five inch wooden base to punch the holes to correct depth, then toss a little better than a tablespoon of Bone Meal into each:

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Then, using the same tool push a little soil in on top of the Bone Meal and tamp if down:

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Toss the seed stock in (pretty much all from last year's bulbil production = round singles) and cover.

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Once that is accomplished, heavily water the bed to "set" the bulbs into place.

Although we don't get the kind of cold folks see elsewhere, we do get a hell of a pile of rain over the winter. Snow usually, and cold to some degree. With that in mind I always cold frame this patch for the winter:

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One side is set up to be easily opened for sunny days, and the soon to be added 4 inch covering of fallen leaves (simply waiting for those to land now - soon):

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And with that, we'll be seeing you in the spring again...

Cheers,
Nog
 
rebuilt the garlic bed planted the best of this years cloves looking forward to doing the bulbit thing next season and our usual scape pesto thanks to all the informative posters on this topic ( yes same post did not like the pictures !)
 

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rebuilt the garlic bed planted the best of this years cloves looking forward to doing the bulbit thing next season and our usual scape pesto thanks to all the informative posters on this topic ( yes same post did not like the pictures !)
Could you please post your scape pesto recipe? I plant 125 cloves every year.
 
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