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    Quote Originally Posted by Deadshot View Post
    ... Did you seaweed the bed last fall?
    You can.
    What we do is run a small second crop (usually lettuce and such).
    When that dies back, we hit up the soil with four different types of manure.
    Sheep & Chicken crap directly from a Buddy's farm
    Cow crap from another fellow,
    And fish compost from the local plant here.
    That is watered down, covered, and allowed to fallow until October.

    When planting we dump a full tablespoon of bone meal under each plant, separated from the seed by a little soil.
    Run them around 4" deep.

    Has always produced rather well for us.

    Jagermeister:
    Man, that is a LOT of garlic you're growing!!

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    First Garlic "Flower" is ready for harvest:



    The other three ain't far behind...

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    Harvested much of the Bulbil seed stock yesterday. You can see that by far most are single round bulbs. Only a few will be segmented into cloves after their first year.



    The growing boxes have a few over-achievers left to finish. These will all be multiple cloved.



    All will be replanted in a few weeks to establish next's years eating stock. And yes, the single cloved ones will produce full sized, multiple cloved stock as we harvested a few months back now.

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    Final Update for 2020...

    For the past couple of weeks, the garlic box has been fermenting a fine mix of chicken, steer and sheep manure mixed with a new load of black earth. That was repeatedly mixed well and readied for today's planting:



    I use an old electrical power-line insulator and the five inch wooden base to punch the holes to correct depth, then toss a little better than a tablespoon of Bone Meal into each:



    Then, using the same tool push a little soil in on top of the Bone Meal and tamp if down:



    Toss the seed stock in (pretty much all from last year's bulbil production = round singles) and cover.



    Once that is accomplished, heavily water the bed to "set" the bulbs into place.
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    Although we don't get the kind of cold folks see elsewhere, we do get a hell of a pile of rain over the winter. Snow usually, and cold to some degree. With that in mind I always cold frame this patch for the winter:



    One side is set up to be easily opened for sunny days, and the soon to be added 4 inch covering of fallen leaves (simply waiting for those to land now - soon):



    And with that, we'll be seeing you in the spring again...

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    Winter Dressage:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVNNhzkJ-UU&feature=related

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    Re: Garlic Harvest Time!

    Looks great Nog. How do you preserve the garlic for months? I find my store bought garlic will dry out before I get to finish it usually, and that is only a 3 or 4 pack usually. I guess I need to eat more garlic....

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    Very inspirational Matt, my mouth is watering.

    I'm glad you take photos and explain what you are doing.
    Is Justin Competent, or just incompetent?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lovemywinchester View Post
    Looks great Nog. How do you preserve the garlic for months? I find my store bought garlic will dry out before I get to finish it usually, and that is only a 3 or 4 pack usually. I guess I need to eat more garlic....
    We have a cold room under the stairs to the basement. Concrete floors and insulated walls. It hangs in there with no adverse effects for months. Like from August to at least April / May. And that is what allows me to harvest so much each year.

    Also houses our canned goods. Handy little room that it is.

    Cheers & Thanks for the kind words Folks!
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    Re: Garlic Harvest Time!

    Thanks for sharing your methods. I have never covered my garlic and it has always made it through the winter. I do have a few leaves on the ground so I will use them to cover the bed and see if it helps

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