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\nToday, Saturday October 19th, 2013, looked like the last nice day this season before it got cold and wet and gross.
\nOver the course of two hours prepping the signage, and another 4 hours poking holes in the ground, inserting a seed and covering it all up again, we planted 49 types of garlic in 63 rows of 6 cloves each, for a total of 378 cloves\/plants.
\nThey were then covered up in straw mulch to help protect against any freeze\/thaw cycles during the fall\/winter and spring and off they go!<\/p>\nSpacing this year was aided with the construction of a “dibbler”, a 2″x3″ piece of wood with 1″ dowels (pointed) on the underside and a handle on top. Last year we planted cloves too close together at abour 4 or 5″. This year is a clear 6″ spacing in a row of 6 cloves. Spacing between rows was increased from 6″ to 8″ We hope to get larger bulbs from this. <\/p>\n
Soil prep was 7 bags of Canadian Tire cow manure (all out of sheep, our preferred), 15kg at 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, tilled in with the addition of another 7 wheelbarrels of triple mix garden dirt.
\nA lot of weeding beforehand again and all is looking like the best prep and soil ever.
\nThe complete list looks like this:<\/p>\n
Alberta Hardy
\nArgentine4
\nArtichoke Formidable
\nBaba’s Chesnock
\nCarpathian
\nChesnok Red
\nChiloe
\nCzech Broadleaf
\nDuganskij
\nFrench
\nGenki
\nGeorgia Crystal
\nGeorgian Fire
\nGerman Red
\nGerman White
\nInchellium
\nItalian Lorenz
\nJapanese
\nJapanese Sikura
\nKettled River Giant
\nKorean Purple
\nLucian Sicilian
\nMagnificent
\nMennonite
\nMetechi
\nMusical
\nNorthern Quebec
\nNorthern Siberian
\nPolish Jenn
\nPurple Glazer
\nRussian Red
\nPurple Stripe Sicilian
\nShouldice
\nSiberian Marble
\nSilverskin 40
\nSlovak
\nSolent Wight
\nSpanish Roja
\nSpicy Korean Red
\nTed1\/Fishlake1
\nTed3
\nTed40
\nTibetan
\nTT5V
\nUS Polish
\nUS Republican
\nUS Romanian
\nWild
\nWyld<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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