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…
Garden signage for garlic
Three years ago, we printed off the names of the types of Garlic we had and had them laminated at Staples. They were cut apart and stapled onto 1×2 stakes.…
Garlic seed available soon
For those looking for garlic seed to plant this fall, rest assured we will have some in the near future. Last week the cleaning and storing of the 500 bulbs…
Garlic Planting history
The 2016/2017 crop of garlic has been cleaned, weighed, measured and stored away in the cold room. Time to start thinking about the 2017/2018 crop. A summary of when we…
Garlic harvest begins
The SCGO Great Garlic Harvest of 2017 has begun. We pull up only the garlic that is ready, with 2-3 leaves dried out. Since there are over 75 types, we…
Master Garlic List 2016
Here is our master list of garlic types planted on Fri & Sat 2016 November 4&5 The missing numbers are ones that we have decided not to plant this year..…
Fall 2016 Garlic planted
It took us two days, 1 hour after work on Friday and almost 2 hours Saturday morning, to get the approx 500 bulbs of garlic planted in Veg bed #5.…
garlic planting prep
Time seems to be in shorter supply every trip round the sun. This year we seem to have fallen behind so much so that it may be another couple of…
The Garlic of August
approximately 500 bulbs of 75 types of garlic were harvested by 2016 July 21. They were washed, sometimes a layer was peeled off, and they were hung up to dry…
Garlic Harvest complete
It took 3 sessions (days) of 2 hours each to dig up, clean up, rinse off, identify, hang up and tag approx 75 types of garlic with about 500 plants…
Garlic Harvest 2016
We started the garlic harvest of 2016 on Sunday July 17th. At least three of the bottom leaves have dried out and the weather is a little unstable and wet…
Eastern Ontario Garlic Field Day 2016
We went on a road trip Sunday 2016 June 26th, to the Eastern Ontario Garlic Field Day, hosted by and at Beaver Pond Estates near Maberly. It was a good…
List of garlic planted in 2015
We’ve been asked by several people to post the master list of all of the various garlic types we plant. Below is the list of what went into the ground…
garlic 2015
The results of 4 hours of planting out 74 types of garlic, over 500 cloves in all, for the 2015/2016 crop. It was a wonderful day, cloudy to start, sunny…