The seed garlic arrived last week!! Every September for the past few years, my parents have sent me a nice big box of their gorgeous homegrown garlic for me to use as seed for my yearly garlic crop. My Dad always does such a careful job of curing it, neatly trimming and cleaning it [. . .]
garlic
garlic
The garlic is looking good these days. A little later than some years, but it seems like it has enjoyed the cooler wetter spring…maybe that’ll mean some nice big bulbs this year. Above is the garlic crop at the beginning of April and below is what it looks like now. It grew a lot….over 3 [. . .]
garlic harvest
This year’s garlic crop is all sold out. Here I am moving some from the spot where it was curing and getting it ready to sort and bag up for my customers. I harvested the garlic back in July. Time to think about planting next year’s crop now. Here are some plants after I pulled [. . .]
garlic scapes!
Summer must be here because the scapes are ready for picking. On a garlic plant the scape is the flower stalk that the plant develops in early June. Most garlic growers remove the scape when it starts to curl because they believe that when it’s removed the energy of the plant will be directed into [. . .]
The garlic is planted!
This year I planted my garlic on the 2 days after the full moon. Some folks believe that when the moon wanes after it has been full, a strong gravitational pull is created that draws more energy down into the soil and into root growth. That’s why the few days after a full moon are [. . .]