I did a head count yesterday. If all goes well with the growing season, I will have 129 bulbs of garlic in November! This vegetable is just so easy to grow. Just stick it in the ground, water, and harvest 6 months later when the tops die down!
So from the original two bulbs of garlic that I bought from Diggers club three years ago, I harvested about 20 bulbs in the first season, 50 bulbs in the second and, well you can tell what will happen next. Just by saving a few more of the fattest bulbs each year as seed for the next, you will never have to buy garlic ever again.
With these two puppy-chinos guarding the crop, I have no doubt at all that it will be a bumper one!
Great job1 Unfortunaty my first bulbs didn't produce much but I am trying again.
ReplyDeletethey are sure keeping an eye out for any types of pests haha
ReplyDeleteI am hoping for better success this year, though we are still eating our own homegrown garlic from last year. This year, looser soil in a better garden bed, but also, the bulbs are going into a bed where pumpkins were...
ReplyDeleteAren't your guard dogs cute, I mean, savage and ruthless!
I bought a punnet with 4 seedlings in and planted them a few weeks ago. My plan is the same as yours... gradually increase the yield every year.
ReplyDeleteGav I like it when you put photographs of your dogs in your post - they look so happy & loved! Makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteI love growing garlic, it is the easiest thing to grow and so useful! I can't understand why more people don't grow it.
ReplyDeleteBTW I love reading your blog!
I count my garlic too....make that potential garlic, something always happens to a portion of the original count. Same goes for any other crop you are looking forward to ;-)
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