After consistently inspecting the cold hardy garlic I purchased last fall from the Maine Potato Lady, and planted last October I finally saw what I have been waiting for. GARLIC SCAPES! They are hard to see from as they are just starting out, but anyone who knows garlic knows what they look like. Last season […]
What a difference a few warm days have made this week for my fall plantings last year. Below is a photo from April 6th, 2013 of this year. I learned my lesson from the 2011-12 garlic season and cleared off my shredded leaf mulch as soon as the weather started to warm in early April […]
Well I was able to find time to plant my garlic & shallots that I got this year from the Maine Potato Lady. It felt like an unseasonably warm October so I waited until close to the end of the month to plant my bulbs. I had a couple hours one evening before it got […]
