The wire mesh fence is 3' and the posts are 4' 6". That one flower in front of the post is 4' They were planted in compost.
Pulled 3/4 of a 4’ X 8’ bed of our carrots and a 1/2 bed of the potatoes. I mulched the remainder of the beds with leaves for storage there until sometime in mid to late November. These carrots are very sweet! (I should mention the bleach is not for washing our vegetables. We don’t like then that clean!)
Our last harvest yesterday TurboDiesel , if the frost stays out of the ground, November is when we’ll drop the garlic in. When the kids were littler, we’d see the first shoots come up during our Easter egg hunt.
Very nice! Those carrots looks awesome! Not so sure about this year, but our garlic always goes in about October and they usually get 3-4" sprouts before winter sets in. We'll mulch them with leaves in a couple weeks and let them be till spring. About the first time we mow grass, I blow the leaves off the garlic and they start to grow.
Would it be too late to plant garlic now in Pennsylvania? How do you keep your garlic after it is harvested? I've never grown garlic but I'd like to give it a shot.
It's not ideal but yeah, you can plant garlic now. Make sure to mulch it well after planting. Keeping garlic is like keeping onions, cure and store in a cool place.
Thanks! Now I have another question. What do you mean by cure? I figured it would be stored in a cool place. I was thinking by basement.
You should try it. Its been really warm, and garlic is a cold weather crop. It'll grow just fine. Even if you dont see it sprout this year it'll come up in the spring. Mulch it with leaves for the winter.
Miss July picks the garlic around July 4th, and lets it dry in the garage 2-3 weeks or until it (doesn't stink the house/basement up inside). After that, it stores easily in the basement or on the counter open to the air. Next fall, take a couple bulbs, separate the cloves and plant again. We started out with one garlic bulb from Julie's coworker about 5 years ago, now we plant about 25-30 cloves (or about 3 bulbs). You get about 7-10 cloves per bulb. We give a handful of cloves away each year for others to plant.
I know one place that has it, the Spread Eagle Garden Center, or at least they did. If possible mail order like stuckinthemuck says. The Maine Potato Lady might have some left, could always try Seed Savers Exchange or any other larger nursery/seed catalog. It's been years since I've purchased any to plant. Maybe Berg Gourmet Garlic Farm in Bark River, they have a FB page. As of 11-5 they still had some fresh garlic left.
I didn't plant a garden this year due to the gypsy moth caterpillar infestation (they were eating everything) so I let my raised garden beds just sit over the spring/summer. I was taking advantage of what will probably be our last warm day for a long time and cleaned out the raised beds of weeds and other invasive plants that grew over the summer. While cleaning out one of the beds, I was surprised to find a healthy carrot, and found it interesting that there was even one there since the last time I planted carrot seeds was in June of 2021. Regardless, as I was surveying the bounty that my garden had provided, I at first thought that this was just Mother Nature having a sense of humor; but then I thought that it was more that there is always something to be thankful for. My tremendous bounty for this year:
