{"id":7088,"date":"2016-07-18T13:39:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7088"},"modified":"2016-07-18T13:45:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:45:47","slug":"garlic-harvest-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/07\/garlic-harvest-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Garlic Harvest 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160718_063143-1024-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160718_063143-1024-1-174x299.jpg\" alt=\"20160718_063143-1024\" width=\"174\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160718_063143-1024-1-174x299.jpg 174w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160718_063143-1024-1-87x150.jpg 87w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160718_063143-1024-1-596x1023.jpg 596w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160718_063143-1024-1.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe 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 looking over the next week or so, so the garlic is starting to come out.  Two hours of harvest yesterday brought up maybe 1\/3 of the 75 types and approx 500 bulbs planted.  The biggest issue as always is keeping track of types, so we have worked out some processes to help.<br \/>\n1. when a plant comes out, the entire row of 6 come out.<br \/>\n2. each row goes into its own basket with its namestake.<br \/>\n3. each basket is gone through one at a time for removal of dirt, rinsing with water and possibly a peel being removed if necessary<br \/>\n4. each basket is hung up on the  drying rack and a new nametag is added to the bunch<br \/>\nWe take a look every few days to see if they have dried enough to warrant squeezing the drying racks a little closer together, lest they fall through the gap.<br \/>\nIn about a month or so of drying outside in a shaded covered area with a lot of air circulation, they will come down, one bunch at a time, roots cut off, heads cut off and then weighed and measured.  Lastly into a paper bag labelled with the name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 looking over the next week or so, so the garlic is starting to come out. Two hours of harvest yesterday brought up maybe 1\/3 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-garlic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7088\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}