Garlic - planted November 2021

 

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:









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