I planted garlic this week - 15 different kinds, about 120 cloves altogether. Not nearly as many as in years past, but this year space is limited. All of the garlic is our own seed, except for the purple Italian, a gift from a friend.
To read about how I plant garlic, see Garlic Harvest 2010.
Above, Laika lords over the strawbale. I mulch garlic beds with six inches of straw for a few reasons... First, without mulch, it is very convenient for a squirrel to yank out a garlic clove and pop in a peanut (and a squirrel can do that approximately 120 times in half as many seconds). Mulch also keeps cloves from heaving out of the freezing and thawing ground over winter. And mulch will keep weeds down next summer. Here are all the kinds we keep.
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| Whistlestop |
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| Brown tempest |
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| California |
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| Carpathian |
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| Chinese red and white |
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| Colorado black |
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| Continental |
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| German red |
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| German white |
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| German extra hardy |
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| Legacy |
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| Music |
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| German porcelain |
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| Purple Italian |
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| Romanian red |
(For further good instructions on planting garlic, see Curbstone Valley Farm's Planting Garlic post.)
6 comments:
Zoe, thanks for the link, what a fabulous assortment of garlic you have! If ours does well this year, we're hoping to keep our own seed for next year. I'd like to have garlic that's adapted for this location. Of course, some of that will be up to the gophers and squirrels!
We heart garlic, too, Zoe!!! We planted the seeds you gave us a few days ago. We'll have to pile on more mulch-- to keep the chickens from digging them up! Thanks for such a wonderful gift!
Zoe thanks for the reminder! Garlic planting almost flew me by with all this end of school homework nonsense! Nice photo essay and garlic varieties<<I will be sure to look them up and see if they will work in our wet climate.
It's great to keep lots of kinds of garlic growing. We have a big thing for garlic too!
Awesome!
I'm planting my own this next week! Love your pics!!
You DO have a lot of garlic. Recently a member of our family introduced us to a new "out-law" who proclaimed they didn't like garlic. My husband and I shot each other concerned glances? NOT LIKE GARLIC? That's like saying you don't like salt!
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