Sunday 25 August 2013

Glorious garlic

This weekend I was at the Haliburton garlic festival.


It is here that the local growers have an opportunity to sell their garlic, and other produce.


 
How I grow garlic in Canada:
In the fall amend the soil with lots of compost.
Plant the individual cloves about mid October 5-6" apart, pointy end up about 2" deep.
After the first hard frost, apply some mulch to the bed to help stop heaving of the bulbs.
Next spring after the snow has melted, expect the green shoots to emerge.
Keep weeded, and watered. Harvest in the summer, after 2-3 leaves have turned brown. 
 

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