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?

(From Gabriolan.ca.)