Verona Garlic Festival 2011
The Verona Garlic Festival was on Saturday September 3rd, 2011 at the Lions Hall/Frontenac Farmers Market venue west of Verona Ontario. Every year it gets better and this ear was…
So far a great week…..
It has been a great week so far. July 25, 2011 Monday, it rained, we needed it. There was a sunrise, and it was raining. Later notes from others said…
Garlic harvest complete
Kim spent another 6 hours early Saturday morning to complete the garlic harvest. Good thing too as we are in for two days of rain today and tomorrow. Each type…
Garlic harvest starts
Some of the garlic was ready to harvest, showing some of the lower leaves turning brown and dying off. So we started a little bit of harvest, cleaned them up,…
garlic harvest is nearing
Another 4 weeks or so to the garlic harvest. Here is an image from this morning showing the 37 types of garlic and maybe 350-400 plants in total. The tomatos…
The Garlic News
We subscribe to The Garlic News, a small newsletter published by our local garlic guru, Paul Pospisil from Maberly Ontario. It is availble by paper subscription, usually found at local…
Chilifeast 2011
Chilifeast 2011 was on Saturday Jan 22nd. There is nothing like hot steaming bowls of chili on a cold canadian winter weekend…. EXCEPT when it is a bunch of competitive…
warm fall continues
Even though we’ve had more than a dozen if not two dozen nights of frost, it continues to be warm in the area. Weather is nothing if not variable. The…
straw on garlic
We finally found a local supplier of straw and purchased a few bales on Saturday and managed to get them out onto the garlic beds Sunday, the object being to…
Garlic goes in 2010
Saturday October 23rd, the garlic goes into the ground. We picked bed Veg4C this year, rotating away from Veg2&3. About a month ago a wheelbarrow of compost and a bag…
Prep the garlic
We have chosen Veg4C as the bed to plant the garlic in the next week or two. Yesterday we cleared out the area or about 8’x23′ or 200 ft^2 added…
garlic in the spring
The garlic is coming along quite nicely this spring. It was planted last fall and covered up with the straw that you see here for the winter. We had to…
Long weekends?
What is the purpose of long weekends again? Maybe to rest? Not this one… We spent friday and saturday cleaning and raking and moving and weeding.. and finally got the…
Garlic goes in
Monday October 12th, 2009 and the garlic goes in the ground. We prepped the raised beds #2 (3’x28’x12″=84ft^2) and #3 (4’x16’x12″=64ft^2) by putting in 7 bags of sheep manure a…