First garlic shoots
The first garlic shoots have slipped up
through the leaves 19 days after going into the ground. Already I
can see a difference between the chunky shoots on this year's garlic
and the spindly leaves which came up from the grocery store garlic I
planted last year.
After my garlic failure this summer, I did some reading and learned
that it's imperative to pick a garlic which is suited to your
climate. Not only that --- you should choose bulbs which were
raised as close to you as possible since it can take multiple years for
a variety which can grow in your region to acclimate if your specific
bulbs were raised a few thousand miles away.
So this time we covered our bases, choosing five varieties from Southern Exposure
Seed Exchange which is at least in state, even if it is 300 miles
away. So far the results are promising, though as Mark noted
we'll have to wait until we taste them all this summer to see if our
experiment was a success. For now, I'm enjoying watching fat
garlic shoots reaching for the sky.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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