{"id":7749,"date":"2017-09-10T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T13:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2017-09-14T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T12:53:49","slug":"garlic-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/garlic-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Garlic Planting history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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over 500 garlic plants with over 75 types<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThe 2016\/2017 crop of garlic has been cleaned, weighed, measured and stored away in the cold room.
\nTime to start thinking about the 2017\/2018 crop.
\nA summary of when we have planted in the past:
\n2016 Nov 05
\n2015 Oct 11
\n2014 Nov 02
\n2013 Oct 19
\n2012 Oct 20
\n2011 Oct 10
\n2010 Oct 23
\n2009 Oct 12
\n2008 Oct 18
\n2007 Oct 13<\/p>\n

We basically watch the weather forecasts two weeks out and look for a downturn.. or a heavy frost (-3C or colder) night, and try to plant a week or two before that. Enough time for the cloves to establish a few roots, and with them being down 4″ they will have more time before a sustained cold affects them.
\nWe have been getting better at planting, moving from 7-8 hours with 300 cloves to maybe 6 hours with 500+ cloves.
\nBeing organized helps and having the bed ready to go is also a critical.
\nThe beds (rotated from last year) will be tilled, compost and composted sheep manure added, then tilled again, at least a month before planting… which is around now.
\nOther prep includes having the garlic seed chosen in advance, cracking the bulbs in advance and having at least 6 ready to go in a labelled bag and a labelled stick for the ground.
\nThe 6 hole dibbler should be cleaned and ready to go as well.<\/p>\n

This year we decided to put down covering straw over the entire bed, including walking paths, instead of just the bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2016\/2017 crop of garlic has been cleaned, weighed, measured and stored away in the cold room. Time to start thinking about the 2017\/2018 crop. A summary of when we have planted in the past: 2016 Nov 05 2015 Oct 11 2014 Nov 02 2013 Oct 19 2012 Oct 20 2011 Oct 10 2010 Oct […]<\/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-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-garlic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","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=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7769,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}