Sunday, May 20, 2012

Harvesting the Garlic

   Garlic it is probably the easiest thing to grow and one of my favorite things to eat...
If your not growing garlic it is time to start.
   I like to plant garlic right after my tomato plants freeze and most of the time it is the very next day. Usually that works out to be around the first week or two of October...

  I do add compost and some bone meal then I plant the cloves of my biggest and best garlic from the year before.  I plant them about 2 inches deep and then I water them in.

     I really don't do much else but add water when they start growing in the spring and maybe a good dusting of a compost or manure.

     I harvest right around memorial day usually but this year was a week early. I do have some beds of garlic that we are still waiting on at are garden in Shumway Az it is close to 6000 ft elevation about 800 ft higher than our garden in Holbrook Az so I figure they will be ready very soon probably in a week maybe two.
 I have the garlic out but now it is time to plant the Tomatoes so it is back to work busy busy....until next time later Dusty...