Garlic is supposed to be one of the easiest crops to grow and we’ve had great luck with it in the past. In fact, we just finished the garlic we grew and stored from last year. But not this year. We had some kind of rot. The leaves died back early. And with many of […]
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I look forward to planting garlic in the fall. It connects me to my garden next year, reassuring me that the too long winter ahead will yield something wondrous. The cloves I plant now will soon send up shoots that will survive through cold and ice and become mature plants on the other side of […]
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We harvested enough garlic last week to last the rest of the year. Here you see the softneck variety, which produced big, luxurious bulbs. Softneck garlic is the kind you normally find in the grocery store, with an indeterminate number of cloves of various sizes. A second type of garlic–hard neck–produces a more uniform bulb […]
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