[Durgan]

1 July 2007 Pulling Garlic and re-planting.



1 July 2007. Garlic was pulled today and the area planted with two rows of lettuce and one row of Joi Choi for later season use. "Durgan's Method" of planting small seeds is explained with pictures.

Two garlic plants did not have the snake seed head (scapes) removed, and these were noticably smaller than the other bulbs. All the other bulbs were about the same size. These are slightly smaller than the crop of last year. This is attributed to insufficient watering. The quality is superb generally, and all would be marketable in the commercial world.

Canadian supermarkets are full of garlic from China these days. This is hard to fathom, since garlic grow effortlessly in most areas of Canada.

[Trillium]

I have a similar wagon, but a h.d. one in red. I made a drying screen out of spare chicken fencing and assorted bits of wood. Laid the garlic on the screen then on the wagon when not in use. Easier to just lift the whole screen when the wagon was needed or moved inside if rain came.

What varieties are you growing? You'll warm the cockles of Whiskey Golf's heartburn