Yes, I would save the largest from this summers harvest, cure them & just hang on to them till a couple weeks before your freeze, as @SheaLoner said. I hang my garlic in the shed to dry, with the fans on, then braid it. Then it comes in the house for use. I do the same with onions & shallots too. My braids from last July (I think).
They are few and far between
I don't trust people to actually do the job and test it accurately and as often as they say they're supposed to. If they screw up, it's my health, family's health and food supply that suffers. Around here they are constantly having septic spills into the local creek, backing up into basements, and generally screwing up the waste system in the city. How can I trust them to get bio-soil right?Do you have a scientific reason or do you just have a hard time getting over the "Ick" factor as well.?
There is no way in heck I'd use it - I had a bad deal with it once. Long story, bear with me...My girlfriends & I went to a Phish show in VT back in 2004, it rained like weeks before & then most of the time we were there. We were camped in cow pastures, but a lot of people were camped in hay/wheat/whatever fields, it was VT, lol. Mud from head to toe, day one to day 5. We all came home & were very quickly sick. I had a horrible ear infection that needed antibiotics, twice. My girlfriend had a severe case of pink eye - she works at a hospital so couldn't return to work until she was cleared. She was out for over a month, it just wouldn't go away. I was curious & did some poking around & ended up seeing some articles about how sick soooo many were that attended the show, all various forms of infections & such. Very weird, I go to Phish shows all the time & never heard of anything so rampant. As it turned out the big story was they had injected the fields with human based compost & no one was supposed to be camping in those fields but the show got out of hand & overflow happened. Now I don't know the details on how the compost was treated (or not), but NO WAY IN HECK I'd ever use human waste as a fertilizer. JMHO, take it for what it is.
Did you know that NYC cant handle all its waste so it is treated compacted and shipped out west. Its bought by the train load as a "cheap" fertilizer and spread on grain fields. I believe out by texas or arizona but havent checked recently.
Can I just take a moment and be both super jealous of your garlic and your cast iron? Beautiful!
Hmm. I imagine the fruit or veggies you might eat grown in this fertilizer would be perfectly safe, but it does seem it was not meant to be made into a soup to roll around in. Not that different from bovine, horse or chicken manure.
