Garlic is in the ground!
Posted in featured selections on Nov 27th, 2007
This weekend I finally planted the garlic, shallots and a new heirloom onion called an Egyptian walking onion, given to us by friends at Toboggan Hill. The weather has been so crazy warm that I didn’t want to get the bulbs in too early and risk early bloom or rotting in waterlogged soil.
I was able to save some seed garlic from last year’s plantings, though not quite as much as I would have liked, and we ordered several different varieties to try this year from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, a wonderful company specializing in seed exchange in the mid-Atlantic states.
Varieties planted:
- German extra hardy porcelain hardneck garlic (saved from last year)
- New York white softneck garlic (saved from last year)
- Spanish Roja hardneck garlic
- Chesnok red purple stripe garlic
- Inchelium red softneck garlic
- French silver skin softneck garlic
- Music porcelain hardneck garlic
- Odetta’s white shallot
- Prince de Bretagne shallot
We’re looking forward to trying the different varieties and sharing with our CSA members. One can never have too much garlic!
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