Garlic round 1 planted (will plant round 2 in a few weeks)

Here's what I did:

Forked/fluffed the area.

Added pre-soaked alfalfa, and mrp, az, and kelp.

Smoothed everything over.

In the east-most two-square (north-south) are 4 elephant cloves harvested from the one huge elephant bulb that I harvested this year.  

To the west of that is a two-square east-west of the biggest Music cloves bought this year.

To the north of those are a two-square east-west of medium/small Music cloves bought this year.

See photo in September/garden folder of my hand-drawn map of today's plantings.

That's it for today.  In a few weeks I'll plant the rest of the Music.

(Today's planting is earlier than normal because of people saying earlier is better -- and the second round in a few weeks will be for comparison.)

GA: Bush beans didn't put out fall flowers!

Weird -- normally I find the bush beans put out a second round of flowers/beans in late summer / into fall -- that didn't happen this year.  Maybe the lack of rain was an issue especially since I didn't keep watering them after the first harvest (but the plants still survived).

GA: First frost!! Many tenders perished! (no frost in yard)

The first frost happened the night of either Friday Sep 19th or Saturday Sep 20th, as noticed when I went to the garden on Sunday Sep 21st.  Most little buckwheat seedlings kaput, as well as most zukes, peppers, etc.

The yard is fine -- no frost there yet.

GA: Harvested all the rest of the sweet corn regardless of size, because (a) critters have eaten a few cobs and (b) they're getting pasty

Quite a lot of cobs, though most at this point are quite small -- it will take 4 or 5 to make a portion, but that's fine.

GA: A small watermelon was delicous!! So red and tasty!

Starting to harvest the rest of the watermelons, gradually.  Overall 3 were full size (for Blacktail Mountain), the rest are about half size.  The first half-size that I harvested, today, was delicious!!  Really red inside, and sweet and tasty.

Bought garlic from Ritchie's: 0.94 pounds of "Music Hardneck Jumbo"

Decided against trying the elephant variety again -- and went only with one type this year, "Music Hardneck Jumbo" (from the bulk section, at Ritchie's).  0.94 pounds of modest but very nice bulb/clove sizes.  I'd be thrilled if even half of these cloves end up producing similar sized garlic.

The price went up -- last year it was $25/pound, this year $27.99.  So, the total cost was $29.73 including tax.

Won't plant yet obviously, too soon.

GA: The corn is now past its prime -- getting pasty, but still edible and enjoyable (just not the OMG delish that it was a few weeks ago)

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