Garlic planting 2013

Oct19
by kevin on October 19, 2013 at 14:00 and modified on October 20, 2013. at 07:38
Posted In: gardening, garlic


Today, Saturday October 19th, 2013, looked like the last nice day this season before it got cold and wet and gross.
Over the course of two hours prepping the signage, and another 4 hours poking holes in the ground, inserting a seed and covering it all up again, we planted 49 types of garlic in 63 rows of 6 cloves each, for a total of 378 cloves/plants.
They were then covered up in straw mulch to help protect against any freeze/thaw cycles during the fall/winter and spring and off they go!

Spacing this year was aided with the construction of a “dibbler”, a 2″x3″ piece of wood with 1″ dowels (pointed) on the underside and a handle on top. Last year we planted cloves too close together at abour 4 or 5″. This year is a clear 6″ spacing in a row of 6 cloves. Spacing between rows was increased from 6″ to 8″ We hope to get larger bulbs from this.

Soil prep was 7 bags of Canadian Tire cow manure (all out of sheep, our preferred), 15kg at 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, tilled in with the addition of another 7 wheelbarrels of triple mix garden dirt.
A lot of weeding beforehand again and all is looking like the best prep and soil ever.
The complete list looks like this:

Alberta Hardy
Argentine4
Artichoke Formidable
Baba’s Chesnock
Carpathian
Chesnok Red
Chiloe
Czech Broadleaf
Duganskij
French
Genki
Georgia Crystal
Georgian Fire
German Red
German White
Inchellium
Italian Lorenz
Japanese
Japanese Sikura
Kettled River Giant
Korean Purple
Lucian Sicilian
Magnificent
Mennonite
Metechi
Musical
Northern Quebec
Northern Siberian
Polish Jenn
Purple Glazer
Russian Red
Purple Stripe Sicilian
Shouldice
Siberian Marble
Silverskin 40
Slovak
Solent Wight
Spanish Roja
Spicy Korean Red
Ted1/Fishlake1
Ted3
Ted40
Tibetan
TT5V
US Polish
US Republican
US Romanian
Wild
Wyld