A visit with Paul
Last week we managed to stop in and have a visit with Paul at Beaver Pond Estates near Maberly Ontario. All of the garlic had long since been harvested and…
Earth Moving
Seven yards of garden mix earth arrived and in the next week or two will be moved into various vegetable beds and maybe even some flower beds. It is garlic…
Verona Garlic Festival
Saturday September 5th, 2015 saw the annual Verona Garlic Festival. It was another hot hot humid humid summer day and we are glad we went earlier in the daytime. It…
More garlic comes ready
2015 Verona Garlic Festival Saturday, September 5, 9 till 2. Dozens of garlic vendors Arts and Crafts Lions Canteen Beef on a Bun WIneries Kids Train Eastern Ontario Garlic Awards…
garlic harvest already
Early to mid July and already the garlic has told us it is time to start harvesting… at least the early varieties. Wednesday 2015 July 8th we harvested 5 types…
Garlic 2014
Below is the list of names of the different types of garlic we planted this year. We are a small scale operation, planting just enough to continue planting the type…
Garlic is in the ground.
The 2014 fall garlic planting was completed on Saturday 2014 November 01, taking 11 person-hours. This is the newest vegetable bed, Veg4west. It is 6′ wide by 23′ long and…
garlic… still pending
Here it is the end of October and our garlic has not yet been planted. The pressure is mounting and the time is growing short. This two week trend forecast…
Garlic Harvested, dried, cleaned, stored
The close-to-400 bulbs of 49 various types of garlic were harvested over a couple of weeks and hung up to dry in four drying stands underneath a lean to shelter.…
Garlic harvest
We’ve started to harvest our garlic crop two weeks ago with the earlier varieties. This weekend we pulled up most of the rest, leaving maybe 6 types in the ground…
2014 Garlic Field Day
A visit to the Beaver Ponds Estate 2014 Garlic Field Day. This was a Sunday 4 or 5 hour meeting of Garlic Growers to learn and share information about the…
peas and lettuce
It’s April, it’s not freezing as much as it did, and the ground has thawed. Yesterday 300kg of composted sheep manure stopped by and we started putting it into the…
Ted Maczka – the fish lake garlic man
Ted Maczka, is the (Prince Edward) County’s legendary Garlic Man. He’s on a mission is to make Canada self-sufficient in garlic. He’s been called “the Johnny Appleseed of Garlic” for…
Garlic planting 2013
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,…
That time of year
It is in fact that time of year. Harvest Time. The tomato plants have been dying off for a few days now and all of the tomatos are being harvested.…