Planting Hard Neck Garlic

[Durgan]

24 Ocober 2011 Planting Hard Neck Garlic 24 Ocober 2011 Planting Hard Neck Garlic

About 100 cloves of hard neck garlic was planted in a 8 by 8 foot bed. Cloves were planted at six inch spacing with the base firmly pushed into the soil at a depth (base) of about two inches. The bulbs were saved from the 2011 crop, and were large, with from five to seven cloves in each bulb. The bed was mulched with wood chips to limit the effects of the normal winter thawing and freezing cycles, and to limit moisture loss due to evaporation. The vegetation has no difficulty pushing through the mulch in the Spring. The bed wont be touched until the scapes (seed pods) are removed, and then the harvest about the 10 of July 2012. A new bed area is selected each year, which is laced with compost and worked into the underlying soil.

[Birdie]

I'm planting my garlic today after pulling the last tomato plant out.
I have spinach, chard, bok choi, sprouting broccoli, onions, lettuce and cauliflower planted so far. Something ate my beets and carrots and it's too late to replant them.

I don't usually plant a winter garden at home but this year the organic garden where I work is installing raised beds so we won't plant again until May.

Happy gardening.