{"id":1238,"date":"2010-10-25T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2010-10-26T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T18:35:29","slug":"garlic-goes-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/garlic-goes-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Garlic goes in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101023-10.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101023-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20101023-10\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1241\" \/><\/a>Saturday October 23rd, the garlic goes into the ground.<br \/>\nWe picked bed Veg4C this year, rotating away from Veg2&#038;3.<br \/>\nAbout a month ago a wheelbarrow of compost and a bag of sheep manure went in and we tilled it up with a little Mantis tiller.<br \/>\nOver 31 varieties went in, and depending on how many cloves per type of garlic bulb, between 4 and 10 cloves went in of each type.<br \/>\nWe managed to get 13 rows in, cloves spaced about 4-5&#8243; apart and rows about 1&#8242; apart, when we discovered we still had more garlic to plant.<\/p>\n<p>So out came the tiller again for 3 more rows in Veg 4B.<br \/>\nThe rains came in the afternoon and we are expecting warm highs and warm lows  for the next two weeks (according to the Weather Network), so the garlic should grow some roots and get established before the ground freezes.<br \/>\nWe use 1&#8243;x2&#8243; stakes with the names of the type written in red paint, at the head end of each section.<br \/>\n36 types in total this year.<br \/>\nRow  1: French , US Roma<br \/>\nRow  2: Artichoke Formidable, US Republican<br \/>\nRow  3: German  Red , Spanish Roja<br \/>\nRow  4: Japanese, Korean Purple<br \/>\nRow  5: Northern Siberian, Georgia Crystal<br \/>\nRow  6: Ginki, Georgian Fire<br \/>\nRow  7: German White, Inchellium<br \/>\nRow  8: Czech Broadleaf, Shouldice, Japanese Sikura<br \/>\nRow  9: Chesnock Red, Metechi<br \/>\nRow 10: Silverskin, Alberta Hardy<br \/>\nRow 11: Carpathian, Mennonite<br \/>\nRow 12: Italian Lorenz, Russian Red?<br \/>\nRow 13: Duganskij,  Slovak<br \/>\nRow 14: Musical, Ted3, Polish Jenn, Magnificent<br \/>\nRow 15: Ted40, Tibet, Siberian Marble, Solent Wight, US Polish<\/p>\n<p>Row 16: Bulble project in cups: 1&#038;2=luciano sicilian, 3&#038;4=silverskin40,  cupless korean purple, 5&#038;6=czech broadleaf, 7=spanish roja, 8=?<br \/>\n9=us replublican  10&#038;11&#038;12=spanish  13=ginki 14= northern siberian, 15=georgian red,  16=mennonite, 17=chesnock red<\/p>\n<p>Two good articles from our local guru Paul Pospisil: <a href=\"\/gardens\/plantinggarlic.pdf\">How to Plant Garlic<\/a> and  <a href=\"\/gardens\/harvestinggarlic.pdf\">How to Harvest Garlic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday October 23rd, the garlic goes into the ground. We picked bed Veg4C this year, rotating away from Veg2&#038;3. About a month ago a wheelbarrow of compost and a bag of sheep manure went in and we tilled it up with a little Mantis tiller. Over 31 varieties went in, and depending on how many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-garlic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}