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Garlic - planted November 2021

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  Ordered from Simply Seed "Rhapsody Wight" This year, I have deliberately not dug over the soil, but instead raked it over leaving the bed quite solid, a tip I learned from an old hand that garlic actually prefers a firmer less spongy bed. Also taking some tips from Old Alabama Gardener on how to plant garlic .  He mixes in a little rabbit manure for each planting which I substitute with well-rotted horse manure. Here are few planted in a row ready to be covered over: And here is an update from 29 December 2021 showing the garlics poking through: Update 11 February 2022 1 April 2022 And here they are drying out: