Monday, October 28, 2024

First hard/killing frost in the yard last night

The massive volunteer cherry tomato by the hydro meter is mostly kaput now, along with any other remaining tenders.

Monday, October 21, 2024

Garlic: First half planted ("Elephant" and "regular")

Several weeks ago I bought $54.50 (!!) (including tax) worth of seed garlic from Ritchies' (all garlic was $24.90/pound and my purchase was 1.93 pounds):
- 2 x Elephant garlic
- 4 x "Regular" garlic (bulk)

So that's a total of 6 bulbs of seed garlic.  The elephant ones are HUGE!  Will be interesting to see how they do.

Today I planed half of them:  1 of the elephant and 2 of the regular, for a total of:
- 10 cloves elephant (in 2.2 square feet, the NW-two-most squares in the garlic bed) (4 per square)
- 20 cloves regular (in 2ish square feet, the two SW-most squares in the garlic bed) (9 per square)

The bed prep consisted of loosening the soil, sprinkling a generous amount of last year's shredded leaves from the basement; then afterwards (because I forgot during), sprinkled mrp and azomite over top.

In a few weeks I'll do the second half.