Garlic growth update

Here's the garlic raised bed, does't look very different from how it did in the fall.



Upon closer inspection, however, we can see a few garlic buds popping out. Shouldn't be long before they're all out.

Garlic planting for 2011

So this bed had in it the tomatoes which didn't go anywhere this summer. I've planted the entire bed with garlic cloves that are the product of the garlic I grew from last year. Last year I planted 11 cloves, this fall I planted 21. Before planting the garlic I took some fresh finished compost out of my composter and mixed it into the bed.

Garlic harvested

I harvested seven of the eleven garlic plants and decided to leave the remaining ones in for another week or two as it isn't evident to me that this was exactly the right time for harvesting. Here is the bed showing the remaining four.



Here are the seven that I've harvested, they are hanging in the basement now for drying, about three weeks.

Garlic growth update

The garlic plants are really tall now. I'm curious to know what is going on underground but have no inclination to disturb the growing.

Garlic growth update

Garlic Growth update...

Garlic growth update

A few photos of how the garlic is doing.

Garlic growth update

Some photos of the 11 garlic cloves I planted last fall...

Garlic has sprouted

Last fall was the first time I planted Garlic, here are the first buds coming up. I think I planted 18 cloves and already I see 9 buds. You plant the cloves in the fall and the following late July or early August you harvest full bulbs.