spring gardens
A quick snap of Vegbed5 for historical records… Approx 960 garlic cloves were planted on 2020 October 25 & 28 in the eastern section (left side of image). Potatos went…
Garlic prep
This years 2020 garlic harvest was better than average. We harvested across a few weeks, as it came ready, and finished in early August. After drying in the leanto for…
Irrigation rocks!
Over the weekend we installed out first irrigation system, the Irrigation Direct Canada “Drip Irrigation Watering Kit for Row Crops”. We installed it in vegbed4, where the fall planted garlic…
Garlic to bed
The 847 garlic cloves of 99 varieties in 142 rows are nicely to bed and sleeping under a coat of straw and snow. Hopefully all will survive and grow to…
Garlic Prep
Two days after work or prepping for garlic planting. about 3 1/2 hours in total to crack open about 150 bulbs to get 847 cloves for planting in 142 rows…
Garlic planting prep 2019
Its that time of year… time to plant the garlic cloves before the ground freezes. So this past weekend, we cleared out the VegBed4 of tomatos plants, stakes, basil, flowers…
Garlic Harvest 2019 – Day Two
Monday 2019 July 22 was the great garlic harvest of 2019 Day Two. We put in two hours of pulling the garlic out of the ground after loosening with a…
The garlic is finished!
The 2018 garlic planting is complete. Still no final numbers but on the order of 85 types and over 1000 cloves planted and covered. The bulbil project is also completed…
Garlic planting prep time
We are so far behind this fall it is not even close to funny. And to help out (not!) it has bee too cold and windy to accomplish anything appreciable…
Verona Garlic Festival
We attended the annual Verona Garlic Festival at the Lions Club Field on Sunday September 2nd, 2018. I believe we have made it to every one since they started, but…
Garlic processing
It’s that time… the garlic has been drying for a month, more than needed in the new drying shed, but the weather has not been cooperating. In general, the batch…
Garlic Harvest complete – 5 days
The Great SCGO Garlic Harvest of 2018 has completed. Five days/sessions of harvest over a week: Sun 2018 July 22 – 3 hours Mon 2018 July 23 – 1.5 hours…
Garlic Harvest Day 3
Day three of the SCGO 2018 Garlic Harvest. Another 90 minutes in the gardens, another 136 plants harvested. For the first time, the new washing table was put to use.…
garlic harvest 2018
Sunday 2018 July 22nd, the 2nd day of garlic harvest. Saturday was about 3 hours of harvesting just under 200 plants. Sunday was only about 1 hour for just under…
Garlic Bulbils planted
Another garlic related project… bulbils. They were planted last night, Monday 2017 Nov 06, in vegbed#7 and covered in straw. The plantings are complete! For more information about garlic please…