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in the dirt, urban plot

Garlic – Fall 2011 Planting

Posted on by annabel
30
Oct

Planting garlic seems to have become our Halloween weekend ritual. And, what a lovely day it was for being outside at the farm. Although garlic offered a nice complement to our market (scapes in June and garlic throughout the latter half of the season), we have scaled back our production a bit this year. Partly […]

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in the dirt, urban plot

Harvesting Garlic

Posted on by annabel
06
Jul

Well, the dog days of summer have arrived and the garlic tops have started to yellow and fall over. It’s time to harvest! Last fall, we used ag fabric as mulch and used a torch to put holes in the fabric for the garlic bulbs. We had some trepidation in harvesting it given this experiment, […]

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