10/27/2024
Garlic✔️🧄
As the cooler fall weather begins to descend it’s time to get that garlic planted! It takes all winter, spring, and even into summer to form big delicious heads of garlic ready for all sorts of culinary uses.
This year I will be growing both elephant garlic (technically not garlic but it’s huge cloves have a mild garlicky flavor, and one clove can be big enough to substitute for 3 or more traditional garlic cloves), and early Italian in one of my 3’x18’ garden beds (*future Alisa: 1lb of garlic filled one bed perfectly*).
Garlic is known to be heavy feeders so I added a layer of fresh chicken bedding straight from the coop and then topped it off with composted manure that has been aging for about a year. Hopefully they pop up and look great in early spring and continue to grow well after another dressing of fertilizer sometime mid spring/early summer.
Plant your garlic now to keep the vampires away this Halloween!🧄🧛
