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The time has come- this is the last photo diary from our current garden and next week is our last week at our house. After that, it’s time for West Virginia and the new farm! I’ll keep posting and sharing with you as we get the farm set up. I’m already nervous- it seems like we have more work ahead of us than we can possibly tackle, so we’ll keep you posted as we move forward one project at a time!...
After growing beautifully all winter and into the spring, producing amazing scapes, and seemingly doing everything as expected, the garlic finally succumbed to the effects of a cool, wet spring and started rotting in the ground before producing decent cloves. The cloves in the picture look deceptively nice, but are actually incredibly under-sized, each only about the size of a quarter. I am totally bummed out. This would be an unfortunate loss any year, as garlic is a staple item in our kitchen, but this garlic was even more important- it was supposed to be the foundation of our seed garlic to grow on our farm next year. After growing...
It continues to be a funky spring. After a few blazing hot days a couple weeks ago, we’ve settled into a pretty steady stream of cool, cloudy, drizzly weather. With lows tonight forecast to go below 50 degrees, it feels more like my June in Michigan rather than our typical hot, sunny Junes in Philadelphia. However, this winter was warm enough that even with a cool spring, things are still ahead of schedule. This includes the garlic, which started producing scapes over a week ago. Garlic comes in two general varieties- hard-neck and soft-neck. You’ll notice the difference as soon as you break a head of garlic open. Hard-neck is composed of...