Garlic
Ah, garlic. This week I planted 125 cloves of garlic, which should produce 125 heads of garlic, and be enough to keep vampires away.
Garlic does seem like the perfect thing to grow on Gabriola, because
Other than weeding, garlic needs little care once it’s planted. (…) Because most growth occurs before the summer sun starts to dry out the soil, garlic normally doesn’t require much irrigation. To allow for optimum underground bulb-curing, avoid watering for a few weeks before harvest, which is usually around the end of July.
(Source: Salt Spring Seeds Garlic Book, by Dan Jason and Paul Ingraham.)
So it’s easy, and doesn’t need much water in the summer. What more could you ask for?
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2 Responses to “Garlic”
srima mukerji on 25 Oct 2009 at 3:44 pm #
I would like to purchase some seed garlic, please let me know how to order.
thanks
Gabriolan on 25 Oct 2009 at 6:41 pm #
I don’t sell garlic, but seed garlic is easy to find. Check your local garden center, for starters. (Garden centers near us often carry Gabriola garlic – is that what you’re after?)
You can buy garlic at the grocery store, and plant the cloves from that. If you want to order garlic over the web, you might try Saltspring Seeds. They sell lots of garlic; I’m trying a few of their garlic varieties this year.