Garlic planting Sat 2017 Nov 04
This is the dibbler. It has 6 dowels on the bottom spaced at 6″ apart. Spacing between types of garlic is 8″, with spacing between rows of the same type of garlic 6″.
This is the first few rows of garlic, with signs at the start of a row. They are then raked over loosely and will be covered in straw the next day.
Part of our preparation is to preselect the seed, ie cloves from each type and determine how many we want to plant in increments of 6. Cracking the garlic bulbs in advance also saves a lot of time in the cold field. In addition it gives us the chance to inspect the cloves for any leek moth damage and replace them if need be.
We planted on Saturday 2017 Nov 4th, in our VegBed#5. It took approx 3 hours to plant 843 cloves. We planted in 5 beds and this new larger number over last year means we took up even more space.
The master list of garlic types are:
# veg Name planted
1 garlic acropolis greek 6
2 garlic Armenian(2015) 12
3 garlic artichoke formidable 12
4 garlic barcelona red sp 12
5 garlic bubbas chesnock 6
6 garlic carpathian 6
7 garlic chesnock red 12
8 garlic chilean silver 6
9 garlic chloe 6
10 garlic czech broadleaf 12
11 garlic dujanski 6
12 garlic F3V 6
13 garlic french 12
14 garlic genki 12
15 garlic georgia crystal 12
16 garlic georgia fire 6
17 garlic german red 6
18 garlic german white 6
19 garlic Hungarian(2015) 12
20 garlic inchelium 18
21 garlic italian lorenz 18
22 garlic japanese 12
23 garlic japanese sikura 6
24 garlic Khabar 6
25 garlic korean purple 12
26 garlic Kostyns Red Russian 6
27 garlic lucian sicilian 12
28 garlic magnificent 6
29 garlic Marino(2016) 6
30 garlic mennonite 60
31 garlic metechi 6
32 garlic Mexican Red Silver 12
33 garlic musical/music 12
34 garlic northern quebec 6
35 garlic northern siberian 6
36 garlic omas 6
37 garlic persian star(2015) 6
38 garlic phillipino 6
39 garlic polish jenn 12
40 garlic purple glazer 12
41 garlic purple stripe sicilian 12
42 garlic red rezan 12
43 garlic rose de lautrec 12
44 garlic Rosewood(2015) 18
45 garlic russian red 18
46 garlic Saltspring Select(2016) 6
47 garlic seversky palisek 12
48 garlic shouldice 6
49 garlic siberian marble 6
50 garlic Sicilian Gold(2016) 12
51 garlic silver white 12
52 garlic silverskin40 12
53 garlic slovak 18
54 garlic solent wight 24
55 garlic spanish antihelion(2015) 12
56 garlic spanish roja 12
57 garlic spicy korean 12
58 garlic Susan Delafield(2016) 12
59 garlic sweet candy(2015) 6
60 garlic Ted F1(2015) 12
61 garlic Ted F21 12
62 garlic Ted F23 18
63 garlic Ted F3 18
64 garlic Ted F30 17
65 garlic Ted F40 12
66 garlic Ted F7 6
67 garlic tibetan 6
68 garlic transylvanian 24
69 garlic ttv5 5
70 garlic us polish 12
71 garlic us republican 6
72 garlic us romanian 11
73 garlic Wettergren(2016) 12
74 garlic wild garlic 6
75 garlic wyld garlic 6
76 garlic zimo 12
total 843
This is part of the finished planting:
The next day (Sunday) We covered them over with three small squares bales of hay, for protection in the winter.
