A little bit more about my garlic. After checking the garlic inventory of the more popular sites, I decided to order from The Garlic Store. They are a small company based in Fort Collins, CO. (I only bring up that they are in Ft. Collins because I lived there for a short time after college and absolutely loved it!!) Anyway, my 1/2 lb. order of Organic German White Garlic (a hardneck variety) gave me 3 bulbs/heads.
It looked great...especially once I broke the bulbs open to find out how many cloves were in each! The cloves were very easy to break apart, fragrant, and although I did not try, also easy to peel.
After loosening up the existing soil and adding a bag of compost to the bed I created to plant the garlic, I made 21 holes, about 2 inches deep and 4-6 inches apart. I put one clove in each hole, "tip" up.
Next, I covered the holes back up with the soil. To protect the garlic from the upcoming New England winter, I used what I had around me as mulch...leaves and grass! I covered the bed with about 6" of leaves and added pieces of the 20' reeds from the surrounding Muddy River bank.
The final result after placing a plastic netting over it so the wind wouldn't blow everything away...
I can't wait until next year and hope that I have all 21 heads of garlic!!
4 comments:
Liz,
Cute blog with the lizard and all. We planted farmers market garlic 3 weeks ago 13 out of 30 are poking up through the straw already. We spent $2 on the garlic figuring if they grew it here already it must be good.
That is one of the varieties that I grew this year(German xhardy and German white are the same). It was the best growing garlic of any of the varieties I had planted. This year about half my garlic is planted in that variety. It may end up taking over the whole patch eventually.
I plant mine the easy way too. I have just used grocery store garlic with no protection - worked just fine. The garlic that grew was even better than the parent bulb! Better tasting and longer storing. I use even the smallest of cloves. I am trying to overwinter some garlic that got missed at harvest to see if the bulbs will get even bigger after two years in the ground. If that works, I may keep a rotating patch similar to my leeks.
All meals are rich in vitamin a garlic flavor and adds a natural antibiotic and he is good in my swine flu
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