Well even though the tips of my garlic leaves yellowed earlier in the season I’m very happy with the bar so far. Some of you may remember I planted over 100 cloves of the hard neck porcelain MUSIC variety. We have had a miserable summer started with very hot and dry then cold and dry then over 9 inches of rain in about 5 weeks, just cold foggy and miserable. I lost over 300 onion plants and most of my corn so I just filled all that under. My remaining garden has a 3 foot slope in 125’ so it pretty good. The garlic is at the top. Here is a picture of less than half the crop I pulled tonight. I’ll harvest the rest Tuesday I don’t want it to rot. Here is a picture.
not yet...
no idea. I was given a bunch of delicious organic garlic from a friend, and I had also purchased some from an annual Garlic Festival where I had come across a variety of garlic that has been grown/developed for the climate here in Nova Scotia. Since I liked the taste of both varieties (and both grown here) I just took some of the best cloves and stuck them in the ground. I do have the names written down somewhere, but Im not too concerned as I was just having fun with it. I left the scapes on so I have bulbils and I'll be tackling the many year endeavor of growing a variety that will be somewhat custom to my farm. Plus, hundreds and hundreds of lil bulbils = hundreds and hundreds of heads of cloves... in many years hahahahaha. The exponential growth, even if it takes years and patience will be so worth it for me.
