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.


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